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Global Health Action Volume 8, 2015 - Issue 1
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A community-based intervention for improving health-seeking behavior among sexual violence survivors: a controlled before and after design study in rural Tanzania

Muzdalifat AbeidDepartment of Women's and Children's HealthInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Obstetrics/GynecologyMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Projestine MuganyiziDepartment of Women's and Children's HealthInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Obstetrics/GynecologyMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Rose MpembeniDepartment of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Elisabeth DarjDepartment of Women's and Children's HealthInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Public Health and General PracticeNorwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Pia AxemoDepartment of Women's and Children's HealthInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Article: 28608 | Received 21 May 2015, Accepted 02 Sep 2015, Published online: 25 Sep 2015

Figures & data

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of communities involved in the intervention and comparison areas, at baseline and endline

Fig. 1 Knowledge on sexual violence by gender of respondents in the intervention and comparison areas, at baseline and endline.

Fig. 1 Knowledge on sexual violence by gender of respondents in the intervention and comparison areas, at baseline and endline.

Table 2 Correct knowledge on sexual violence in the intervention and comparison areas at baseline and endline

Fig. 2 Acceptance attitudes toward violence against women norms by gender of respondents in the intervention and comparison areas at baseline and endline.

Fig. 2 Acceptance attitudes toward violence against women norms by gender of respondents in the intervention and comparison areas at baseline and endline.

Table 3 Acceptance of violence against women between intervention and comparison areas at baseline and endline

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