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Title: | Personal beliefs and social norms regarding the sexual exploitation of girls in age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Brazil: a mixed-methods study | Authors: | Ignacio, Caroline Ferraz Cerdeira, Linda Cislaghi, Beniamino Lauro, Giovanna Buller, Ana Maria |
Keywords: | Youth; Sex; Relationships; Gender norms; Urban health; Masculinity; Brazil; Latin America | Issue Date: | 6-Jun-2022 | Publisher: | BMC | Project: | OCAY-16-188 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Reproductive Health | Volume: | 19 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | In the global debate around transactional sex little attention has concentrated on Brazil, despite ranking fourth globally in absolute number of girls married or co-habiting by the age of 15 years, and evidence showing that these unions often begin as age-disparate transactional sex (ADTS). This article contributes to filling this gap by exploring the personal beliefs and social norms related to ADTS in urban (favela) communities of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between adult men (> 18 years) and girls and adolescents (G/A) (< 18 years) with a minimum 5-year age disparity. The primary objective of this study was to identify the social norms that promote and prevent ADTS, and the dynamics between individual beliefs and social norms, to provide contextualized recommendations to prevent ADTS in this setting. | Description: | Ethical approval was obtained from the Committee for Ethics in Research of the Philosophy and Humanities Centre of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CAAE 65254917.0.0000.5582) and from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Ethics Reference no. 11958). All participants were provided oral explanations of the study, their rights, including their right to not answer questions or to leave the study at any moment, measures of confidentiality, and information regarding the supervising ethics board, which were all available on the Term of Free and Informed Consent (TFIC), before signing it. The TFIC was signed by all participants and guardians provided additional signed consent for minors. Enumerators were experienced in addressing sensitive topics with minors and adults in high-conflict communities and were subject to additional training focused on ethics and confidentiality to promote participant security. Interviews and surveys were also gender-paired to promote the comfort of the respondents. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/101345 | ISSN: | 1742-4755 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12978-022-01437-3 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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