Focus group discussions with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania

Buller, AM, Howard-Merrill, L, Pichon, M, Sono, R, Gimunta, V, Hofer, E, Kiluvia, F, Alfred, M, Yohanna, E, Dyanka, J, Ephraim, T, James, N, Joseph, W, Kinanda, I, Mbaga, M, Rogers, MR and Stanley, S. 2024. Focus group discussions with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004220.

Buller, AM, Howard-Merrill, L, Pichon, M, Sono, R, Gimunta, V, Hofer, E, Kiluvia, F, Alfred, M, Yohanna, E, Dyanka, J, Ephraim, T, James, N, Joseph, W, Kinanda, I, Mbaga, M, Rogers, MR and Stanley, S. Focus group discussions with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2024. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004220.

Buller, AM, Howard-Merrill, L, Pichon, M, Sono, R, Gimunta, V, Hofer, E, Kiluvia, F, Alfred, M, Yohanna, E, Dyanka, J, Ephraim, T, James, N, Joseph, W, Kinanda, I, Mbaga, M, Rogers, MR and Stanley, S (2024). Focus group discussions with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004220.

Description

A set of seven anonymised, pre / post focus group discussion transcripts. Five focus group discussions were conducted with in-school adolescent girls aged 13-15 years, with ten girls in each group. Additionally, one focus group discussion was conducted with male caregivers and one with female caregivers of girls in the same age range, with nine caregivers in each group. Interviewees gave informed consent to participate in an exploratory evaluation of the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Kigoma region, Tanzania between October and December 2021. Focus group discussions were conducted at baseline and endline, after the radio drama had been played on the local radio station and some girls had listened to it in after school girl’s clubs. The focus group discussions contain information on gender norms, perceptions of age-disparate transactional sex and girls and men who engage in it, beliefs about whose responsibility it is to prevent age-disparate transactional sex, and perceptions of and experiences with the radio drama and listening sessions.

Methods

Description of data capture

Kiota Women’s Health and Development (KIWOHEDE) researchers conducted all focus group discussions face to face in Kiswahili using a semi-structured topic guide.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
October 2021	December 2021

Date (Completed)

4 June 2024

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Buller, AM, Howard-Merrill, L, Pichon, M, Sono, R, Gimunta, V, Hofer, E, Kiluvia, F, Alfred, M, Yohanna, E, Dyanka, J, Ephraim, T, James, N, Joseph, W, Kinanda, I, Mbaga, M, Rogers, MR and Stanley, S
Associated roles	Amando, D (Other)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Amani Girls Organization, Kiota Women’s Health and Development, United Nations Population Fund

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) Shinyanga sub-study	Oak Foundation	OFIL-20-236	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100001275
Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) Shinyanga sub-study	Wellspring Foundation	13343	UNSPECIFIED
Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) Shinyanga sub-study	United Nations Population Fund	UNSPECIFIED	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006661