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Examining Diffusion to Understand the how of SASA!, a Violence Against Women and HIV Prevention Intervention in Uganda

Starmann, Elizabeth - Personal Name; Heise, Lori - Personal Name; Kyegombe, Nambusi - Personal Name; Devries, Karen - Personal Name; Abramsky, Tanya - Personal Name; Michau, Lori - Personal Name; Musuya, Tina - Personal Name; Watts, Charlotte - Personal Name; Collumbien, Martine - Personal Name;
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Background: A growing number of complex public health interventions combine mass media with communitybased
“change agents” and/or mobilisation efforts acting at multiple levels. While impact evaluations are important,
there is a paucity of research into the more nuanced roles intervention and social network factors may play in
achieving intervention outcomes, making it difficult to understand how different aspects of the intervention worked (or
did not). This study applied aspects of diffusion of innovations theory to explore how SASA!, a community mobilisation
approach for preventing HIV and violence against women, diffused within intervention communities and the factors
that influenced the uptake of new ideas and behaviours around intimate partner relationships and violence.
Methods: This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of
endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the
SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communities in Kampala, Uganda between 2007 and
2012. The secondary analysis of follow up survey data used multivariate logistic regression to examine associations
between intervention exposure and interpersonal communication, and relationship change (n = 928). The qualitative
study used in-depth interviews (n = 20) and framework analysis methods to explore the intervention attributes that
facilitated engagement with the intervention and uptake of new ideas and behaviours in intimate relationships.
Results: We found communication materials and mid media channels generated awareness and knowledge, while
the concurrent influence from interpersonal communication with community-based change agents and social network
members more frequently facilitated changes in behaviour. The results indicate combining community mobilisation
components, programme content that reflects peoples’ lives and direct support through local change agents can
facilitate diffusion and powerful collective change processes in communities.
Conclusions: This study makes clear the value of applying diffusion of innovations theory to illuminate how complex
public health intervention evaluations effect change. It also contributes to our knowledge of partner violence
prevention in a low-income, urban East African context.


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Violence against women
Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Diffusion
Social networks
Community mobilisation
Partner violence
SASA!
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