Empowerment Self-Defense Training for the Prevention of Victimization of Transgender Women

预防跨性别女性受害的赋权自卫训练

基本信息

批准号：
10271280
负责人：
Danielle Shea Berke
金额：
$ 22.65万
依托单位：
HUNTER COLLEGE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-25 至 2022-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10271280
关键词：
Address Anxiety Area Assertiveness Behavioral Mechanisms Cessation of life Collaborations Collection Communication Communities Consultations Data Development Educational Curriculum Evaluation Exclusion Exposure to Feedback Focus Groups Forcible intercourse Foundations Gender Gender Identity HIV risk Heterosexuals High Risk Woman Hour Individual Interpersonal Violence Intervention Intervention Studies Interview Knowledge Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Link Literature Manuals Measures Mental Depression Mental Health Minority Modeling New York Outcome Participant Pathway interactions Population Prevention Prevention Research Prevention approach Prevention program Procedures Process Program Acceptability Provider Questionnaires Randomized Clinical Trials Randomized Controlled Trials Research Research Personnel Resistance Risk Risk Behaviors Safety Science Self Efficacy Sexual and Gender Minorities Shame Stigmatization Stress Substance abuse problem Suicide Surveys Symptoms Target Populations Testing Theoretical model Training Training Programs United States Victimization Violence Vulnerable Populations acceptability and feasibility assault base behavior change cis-female college community center empowerment evidence base experience follow-up gender minority health disparity individualized medicine member physical conditioning post intervention prevent preventive intervention productivity loss programs protective behavior psychological stressor recruit relationship violence service gap service providers sexual victimization sexual violence skills social stigma social stressor stressor theories therapy design transgender transgender women transphobia treatment response university student violence prevention

项目摘要

Transgender women (TW) are at the highest risk for exposure to interpersonal violence even compared to other sexual and gender minority individuals. Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) training, a specific violence prevention approach that teaches participants strategies for actively resisting assault, holds tremendous promise for reducing risk of violent victimization. Indeed, research consistently shows that assertive and physical forms of resistance are effective in deterring rape. Moreover, in randomized controlled trials, ESD violence prevention training has been shown to reduce rates of victimization among college students by nearly half at 1-year follow-up. Unfortunately, diverse TW are rarely included in ESD violence prevention research and programming. This exclusion is problematic not only because TW comprise the highest need population for targeted violence prevention, but also because theoretical models of gender identity stigma hold that social and psychological stressors specific to gender-minority identity increase risk for interpersonal violence along multiple unique pathways. Standard ESD violence prevention programs do not incorporate content, materials, or strategies tailored to the specific pathways by which TW are impacted by interpersonal violence. This R21 fills this substantial gap in prevention science by developing and piloting an ESD violence prevention training specifically tailored to TW. The proposed project is a collaboration between researchers at Hunter College and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of New York (The Center), to adapt an ESD personal safety and violence prevention program for TW. The first draft of the tailored curriculum will be developed in consultation with a community board comprised of TW and locally engaged service providers, organized around central themes generated from qualitative interviews with key community stakeholders and relevant theory (i.e., the Gender Minority Stress Model). The tailored ESD violence prevention curriculum will be further refined and pilot tested through delivery to 3 groups of up to 16 TW each in a 20-hour training program. Evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and study procedures will be informed by data gathered from program participants and facilitators. We will also conduct an exploratory assessment of the preliminary efficacy of the tailored intervention using a battery of validated questionnaires assessing use of resistance strategies, gender minority stress pathways, and exposure to victimization experiences prior to, 3- months, and 6-months post-completion of the training. This research will establish whether evidence-based ESD violence prevention principles can be adapted to address the unique needs of TW. The project is an important step in developing comprehensive and effective approaches to the prevention of interpersonal violence associated with a key vulnerable population.

跨性别妇女（TW）即使与其他性别和性别少数人。授权自卫（ESD）培训，特定的暴力预防方法教会参与者积极抵抗攻击的策略，持有巨大的降低暴力受害风险的承诺。确实，研究始终表明了这种自信和抗药性的物理形式可有效阻止强奸。此外，在随机对照试验中，ESD 已显示暴力预防培训可降低大学生的受害率一半在1年随访中。不幸的是，多元化TW很少被包括在ESD暴力预防研究中和编程。这种排除是有问题的，不仅是因为TW构成了最高需求对于有针对性的暴力预防，也是因为性别认同的理论模型认为社会以及特定于性别少数性身份的心理压力源增加了人际暴力的风险多个独特的途径。标准ESD暴力预防计划不包括内容，材料，或针对TW受到人际暴力影响的特定途径量身定制的策略。这个R21 通过开发和驾驶ESD暴力预防培训来填补预防科学的巨大空白专门针对TW量身定制。拟议的项目是亨特学院研究人员与女同性恋的研究人员之间的合作纽约（中心）双性恋和变性社区中心，以适应ESD人身安全和TW的暴力预防计划。量身定制课程的初稿将在与由TW和本地参与的服务提供商组成的社区委员会咨询围绕与关键社区利益相关者的定性访谈产生的中心主题及相关访谈理论（即，性别少数压力模型）。量身定制的ESD暴力预防课程将进一步在20小时的培训计划中，通过交付给3组最多16个T的精制和飞行员进行了测试。评估干预和研究程序的可行性和可接受性将由数据告知从计划参与者和促进者那里收集。我们还将对使用一系列经过验证的调查表评估使用的量身定制干预的初步疗效抵抗策略，性别少数压力途径以及3--之前接触受害经历培训完成后几个月和6个月。这项研究将确定是否基于证据 ESD暴力预防原则可以适应TW的独特需求。该项目是一个开发全面有效的方法来预防人际关系的重要步骤与关键脆弱人群相关的暴力。