The SASA Study: A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda

Devries, K and Abramsky, T. 2015. The SASA Study: A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.15.

Devries, K and Abramsky, T. The SASA Study: A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.15.

Devries, K and Abramsky, T (2015). The SASA Study: A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.15.

Description

Gender based violence, including violence by an intimate partner, is a major global human rights and public health problem, with important connections with HIV risk. While unequal gender norms and relations are recognised to underpin risk of both violence and HIV, there is limited evidence surrounding the potential of community interventions to tackle these norms and reduce violence and HIV risk at the community level. The SASA! study is a mixed methods evaluation of a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV-risk in Kampala, Uganda. These datasets come from the cluster randomised trial component, and contain the results of two cross sectional surveys of community members, one conducted prior to intervention implementation and one approximately 4 years later.

Methods

Description of data capture

A pair-matched cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in eight communities in Kampala (four intervention and four control). The eight communities, each comprising one or two administrative parishes, were purposively selected to ensure that all sites would be suitable for delivery of the intervention and were separated from each other by a geographical buffer (at least one parish wide) to reduce the potential for intervention diffusion into control sites. Sites were matched into four pairs on the basis of population density and mobility. One from each pair was then randomly selected to be an intervention community and the other designated as a control. Cross-sectional surveys of community members (aged 18-49 years) in both intervention and control communities were conducted before intervention implementation (baseline) and approximately four years later (follow-up). Multistage stratified random sampling was used to sample community members, with census enumeration areas used as the primary sampling unit. For reasons of respondent safety, male and female samples were drawn from different enumeration areas. The sampling strategy is described in more detail in the protocol.

Data capture method

Questionnaire

Data Collection Period

From	To
December 2007	December 2012

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

1 October 2015

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
0.40099	32.614	0.325203	32.5434

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Devries, K and Abramsky, T
Associated roles	Watts, C (Principal Investigator), Michau, L (Principal Investigator), Musuya, T (Principal Investigator), Kiss, L (Researcher), Kyegombe, N (Researcher), Starmann, E (Researcher), Cundill, B (Project Member), Francisco, L (Researcher), Kaye, D (Researcher), Nakuti, N (Project Member), Karungi, E (Data Manager) and Simms, V (Project Member)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Research Group	Gender Violence and Health Centre, Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Raising Voices, Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), Makerere University

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
The SASA! Study: A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda	International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)	OW3/1059	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Irish Aid	UNSPECIFIED	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100009099
UNSPECIFIED	Stephen Lewis Foundation	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Australian Agency for International Development / Australian Aid	UNSPECIFIED	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000972
UNSPECIFIED	Sigrid Rausing Trust	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Anonymous donation	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED