Perceptions of abused Chinese women on community-based participatory approach programme in addressing their needs

ABSTRACT

Background

The community-based participatory approach (CBPA) has gained increasing recognition worldwide for enhancing the effectiveness of intervention. It is relatively new in Chinese societies and participants’ perceptions are underexplored. This study aims to explore abused Chinese women’s perceptions on the CBPA programme in addressing their needs.

Methods

A total of 11 abused Chinese women were recruited for a focus group and individual interviews. A semi-structured interview guide was used. All interviews were audio-recorded and data were transcribed verbatim. Conventional content analysis was used for analysis.

Results

Four themes were identified regarding the women’s perceptions and experiences of the community-based participatory approach programme: (1) Women’s perceived acceptability of the CBPA programme; (2) Women’s perceived usefulness of the CBPA programme; (3) Women’s perceived feasibility of the CBPA programme; and (4) Empowering the women through participating in CBPA.

Conclusions

Abused Chinese women had high perceived acceptance and positive experiences towards the community-based participatory approach. Women benefited from their robust participation throughout the process. The findings confirm the potential of using the community-based participatory approach in designing interventions for future programme planning and intervention to address the needs of abused Chinese women.

KEYWORDS:

• Intimate partner violence
• community-based participatory research
• perceptions
• experiences
• qualitative
• abused women

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Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.

Notes on contributors

Elaine Hoi Yee Chow

Dr.Elaine Chow is Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing of Tung Wah College, Hong Kong. She is an experienced registered nurse and nurse educator with over 10 years of experiences in the field. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong.She has developed her research interest in domestic violence, especially intimate partner violence against women, since studying the doctoral degree.

Agnes Tiwari

Professor Agnes Tiwari is Head of the School of Nursing at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital and Honorary Professor of the School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong. She is internationally recognized for her work on interpersonal violence prevention and intervention including the validation of the Chinese Abuse Assessment Screen and several clinical trials of violence prevention models at primary, secondary and tertiary levels.