The prevention of gender-based violence among school-aged adolescents: a nursing educational intervention

The project aims at contributing to the reduction of gender-based violence amongst adolescent boys and girls attending schools in cities such as Hyderabad. To do so, the knowledge, attitudes and practices of community health nurses and school teachers will be explored in relation to gender roles, healthy relationships and gender-based violence. The way they conceive their professional identity regarding these issues will also be adressed. Through selected literature, practices to promote gender equality and healthy relationships will be identified in order to implement a pilot educational intervention by community health nurses working in the school setting of cities such as Hyderabad. The project also hopes to contribute to the larger development of primary health care nursing in India as well as the advancement of the nursing profession by mobilizing the full potential of the nurse clinician through the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Nursing’s 8 competencies framework (2015). The project will be conducted by Sandrine Chauveau-Sauvé, senior undergraduate nursing student and will be co-supervised by Professor Bilkis Vissandjee at University of Montreal and Dr. Varalakshmi Manchana at University of Hyderabad.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bilkis Vissandjée

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Partner:

University of Hyderabad

Discipline:

Life Sciences

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University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award