ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life: Families' Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls' Unaccompanied Migration for Labor

Bahar, OS (通讯作者),Washington Univ, Brown Sch, Campus Box 1196,One Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.
2022-10
Approximately 160 million children work as child laborers globally, 39% of whom are female. Ghana is one of the countries with the highest rates of child labor. Child labor has serious health, mental health, and educational consequences, and those who migrate independently for child labor are even at higher risk. Yet, evidence-based efforts to prevent unaccompanied child migration are limited. In this study, we examined the acceptability of a family-level intervention, called ANZANSI (resilience in local language) combining two evidence-based interventions, a family economic empowerment intervention and a multiple family group family strengthening intervention, to reduce the risk factors associated with the independent migration of adolescent girls from the Northern region to big cities in Ghana. We conducted semi-structured interviews separately with 20 adolescent girls and their caregivers who participated in ANZANSI. Interviews were conducted in the local language and transcribed and translated verbatim. Informed by the theoretical framework of acceptability, the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results showed high intervention acceptability among both adolescent girls and their caregivers, including low burden, positive affective attitude, high perceived effectiveness, low opportunity costs, and high self-efficacy. The study findings underline the high need for such interventions in low-resource contexts in Ghana and provide the foundation for testing this intervention in a larger randomized trial.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:20
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
Washington University (WUSTL); University of Ghana; University of Ghana; Washington University (WUSTL)
资助机构
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)(United States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD))
资助信息
This study is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under Award Number R21HD099508 (PI: Ozge Sensoy Bahar, PhD). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NICHD or the National Institutes of Health.
被引频次(WOS)
1
被引频次(其他)
1
180天使用计数
1
2013以来使用计数
1
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-10
DOI
10.3390/ijerph192013168
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
intervention acceptability evidence-based intervention child labor unaccompanied migration adolescent girls qualitative Ghana
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health