Issahaku Paul Alhassan
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
Violence Vict. 2018 Aug;33(4):627-644. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00053.
This aricle expands scholarship on intimate partner violence in Ghana by discussing what should be done to stop it, using data from the Northern region. The data came from 53 survey participants who provided useful responses to an open question: "what should we do to stop intimate partner violence"? The 53 respondents were part of 443 women non-randomly sampled at public health centers across the region to participate in a survey on intimate partner violence. Although the survey used a questionnaire, responses to the open question constituted qualitative data for this article. All 53 written responses were typed out verbatim into a Microsoft word document to generate a transcript for analysis. Responses entered in the transcript were numbered to distinguish one from another. Each numbered unit of text represented the complete response of a participant. Data were content-analyzed and reduced to five meaning categories for interpretation and conclusion-drawing. These are: provide behavior change support to couples; institute and enforce legal sanctions against perpetrators; empower women; provide public education for social change; and pray and preach against violence. Discussion of the findings is situated within discourse analysis and the article concludes with a note on implications for policy and practice.
本文通过利用来自北部地区的数据，讨论应采取哪些措施来制止加纳的亲密伴侣暴力行为，从而拓展了关于这一问题的学术研究。这些数据来自53名调查参与者，他们对一个开放性问题“我们应该做些什么来制止亲密伴侣暴力行为？”给出了有用的回答。这53名受访者是在该地区公共卫生中心非随机抽取的443名女性中的一部分，她们参与了一项关于亲密伴侣暴力行为的调查。尽管该调查使用了问卷，但对开放性问题的回答构成本文的定性数据。所有53份书面回答都逐字录入到一个Microsoft Word文档中，以生成一份供分析的文字记录。录入文字记录的回答都进行了编号，以便相互区分。每个编号的文本单元代表一名参与者的完整回答。对数据进行了内容分析，并归纳为五个意义类别，用于解释和得出结论。这五个类别是：为夫妻提供行为改变支持；对施暴者制定并实施法律制裁；增强妇女权能；开展社会变革的公共教育；以及祈祷和宣讲反对暴力。研究结果的讨论基于话语分析，文章最后指出了对政策和实践的启示。
