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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7431
2024-03-29T00:10:31Z
2024-03-29T00:10:31Z
Prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence against women with disabilities in Bangladesh: results of an explanatory sequential mixed-method study
Hasan, Tanvir
Muhaddes, Tisa
Camellia, Suborna
Selim, Nasima
Rashid, Sabina
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7574
2017-01-24T04:39:35Z
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence against women with disabilities in Bangladesh: results of an explanatory sequential mixed-method study
Hasan, Tanvir; Muhaddes, Tisa; Camellia, Suborna; Selim, Nasima; Rashid, Sabina
This study was aimed to estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a sample of 226 women with disabilities living in four different districts of Bangladesh. It also explored the physical and psychological suffering of women experiencing violence and their various coping strategies. A cross-sectional survey was carried out with 226 women with disabilities to measure the prevalence of IPV, and 16 in-depth interviews were conducted to document in detail the experiences of violence encountered by the abused women. Among the 226 women interviewed in the survey, about 84% reported ever having experienced at least one act of emotional abuse, physical, or sexual violence from their partner during their lifetime. Women who were older (aged above 32 years), separated, and members of economic/savings group were more likely to report ever having experienced any IPV than women with disabilities who were younger (aged 32 years and less), married, and not members of economic/savings group. Most of the women experiencing violence reported sufferings from physical and psychological problems. Of all the women who experienced violence, less than half (45%) reported seeking support to minimize or avoid violence experiences. However, seeking support from informal network such as family and relatives was commonly reported by many (81.4%) of them. Study findings suggest that women with disabilities who possess poor socio-economic status coupled with economic dependency on husbands’ income and wide-spread social stigma against disability make them vulnerable to IPV. Future interventions to address IPV against women with disabilities should include building community knowledge of disability and IPV, countering the pervasive social stigma against disabilities, and improving the socio-economic conditions of women with disabilities through education and employment.
This article was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence [© 2014 SAGE Publications Inc.] and The Journal's website is at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260514534525
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: what are the coping strategies?
Goudet, Sophie M.
Griffiths, Paula L.
Bogin, Barry A.
Selim, Nasima
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7459
2017-01-02T10:40:05Z
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: what are the coping strategies?
Goudet, Sophie M.; Griffiths, Paula L.; Bogin, Barry A.; Selim, Nasima
Previous research has shown that urban slums are hostile environments for the growth of infants and young children (IYC). Flooding is a hazard commonly found in Dhaka slums (Bangladesh) which negatively impacts IYC's nutritional and health status. This paper aims 1) to identify the impact of flooding on IYC's feeding practices, and 2) to explore the coping strategies developed by caregivers. Qualitative data (participant observation and semi-structured interviews) and quantitative data (household questionnaire and anthropometric measurements) collected in slums in Dhaka (n=18 mothers, n=5 community health workers, and n=55 children) were analysed. The subjects of the interviews were mothers and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) community health workers living and working in the slums. Research findings showed that breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices for IYC were poor and inappropriate due to lack of knowledge, time, and resources in normal times and worse during flooding. One coping strategy developed by mothers purposely to protect their IYC's nutritional status was to decrease their personal food intake. Our research findings suggest that mothers perceived the negative impact of flooding on their IYC's nutritional health but did not have the means to prevent it. They could only maintain their health through coping strategies which had other negative consequences. The results suggests a holistic approach combining 1) provision of relief for nutritionally vulnerable groups during flooding, 2) support to mothers in their working role, 3) breastfeeding counseling and support to lactating mothers with difficulties, and 4) preventing malnutrition in under 2 year old children.
This article was published in the Maternal and Child Nutrition [ © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00250.x The Journal's website is at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00250.x/abstract;jsessionid=9054A557596596E7F96D1D2A81695267.f03t04
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mixing methods, tasting fingers: notes on an ethnographic experiment
Mann, Anna
Mol, Annemarie
Satalkar, Priya
Savirani, Amalinda
Selim, Nasima
Sur, Malini
Yates-Doerr, Emily
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7432
2017-01-02T05:32:53Z
2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mixing methods, tasting fingers: notes on an ethnographic experiment
Mann, Anna; Mol, Annemarie; Satalkar, Priya; Savirani, Amalinda; Selim, Nasima; Sur, Malini; Yates-Doerr, Emily
This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our aim was not to explain our responses, but to articulate them. As we seek words to do so, we are compelled to stretch the verb "to taste."Tasting, or so our ethnographic experiment suggests, need not be understood as an activity confined to the tongue. Instead, if given a chance, it may viscously spread out to the fingers and come to include appreciative reactions otherwise hard to name. Pleasure and embarrassment, food-like vitality, erotic titillation, the satisfaction or discomfort that follow a meal - we suggest that these may all be included in "tasting." Thus teasing the language alters what speakers and eaters may sense and say. It complements the repertoires available for articulation. But is it okay? Will we be allowed to mess with textbook biology in this way and interfere, not just with anthropological theory, but with the English language itself?
This article was published in the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [ © 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009 The Journal's website is at: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau1.1
2011-01-01T00:00:00Z