{"id":29897,"date":"2023-06-11T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/using-a-gender-transformative-program-to-improve-adolescent-contraception-use-in-south-africa-and-lesotho"},"modified":"2023-06-11T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T12:36:22","slug":"using-a-gender-transformative-program-to-improve-adolescent-contraception-use-in-south-africa-and-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/using-a-gender-transformative-program-to-improve-adolescent-contraception-use-in-south-africa-and-lesotho","title":{"rendered":"Using a gender-transformative program to improve adolescent contraception use in South Africa and Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>In a blog for World Contraception Day, Xanthe Hunt and colleagues discuss the &#8216;If I Were Thabo&#8217; intervention to prevent unintended pregnancy and promote sexual health, which is being tested in the THABO study registered at the ISRCTN registry.<\/p>\n<p>Adolescent behavior is notoriously hard to change. Indeed, large meta-analyses suggest that a range of behavior change programs are, on average, less effective for adolescents aged 13 to 17 than for younger children transitioning into adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>And, of all of the behaviors which are difficult to change, sexual behavior is notoriously tricky. Part of this is simply because adolescents may have low levels of knowledge about how to engage in safe sex, including how to negotiate condom use, where to purchase contraceptives, and how to access accurate information about sexual health.<\/p>\n<p>However, years of research have shown that improving knowledge alone is not enough to shift how teenagers (or adults for that matter) behave: even with all of the information in the world, people may still behave in ways which are against their best interests.<\/p>\n<p>Adolescents may be driven to engage in unsafe sex because they hold erroneous beliefs about sex and relationships, because they do not consider or comprehend the possible outcomes of their behaviors, they may not think that they are capable of taking action to protect their sexual health, and \u2013 finally \u2013 because they are extremely susceptible, because of their developmental period, to social influences.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the Institute for Life Course Health Research at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and Lesotho, in partnership with colleagues from Queen\u2019s University Belfast in the UK, are delivering a program which aims to tackle these social influences head on.<\/p>\n<p>If I Were Thabo is a relationships and sexuality education intervention which seeks to improve adolescent contraceptives use and prevent adolescent pregnancy by addressing the complex drivers of adolescent sexual behavior, with a focus on the gender norms which make teenage girls vulnerable to unsafe sex, and at risk of early parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention was first developed and trialed in the UK (as If I Were Jack), before being adapted for delivery in South Africa and Lesotho, and addresses all of the determinants of adolescent sexual behavior, including beliefs about outcomes and beliefs about capabilities, knowledge, and skills.<\/p>\n<p>It has a variety of different activities which specifically aim to address gender norms to achieve behavior change by engaging both adolescent boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>If I Were Thabo is delivered in high schools by trained intervention facilitators. The program\u2019s content includes slides, classroom activities, and homework exercises which involve adolescents\u2019 parents.<\/p>\n<p>However, If I Were Thabo centers on an interactive video drama which is shown to participants on the first day of the intervention. The video tells the story of Thabo, a teenager who has just found out that his girlfriend, Anathi, is unexpectedly pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the young couple negotiate finding out about the pregnancy and exploring their different options. After every scene, the video pauses and questions appear on the screen which prompt the adolescent viewers to put themselves in the shoes of Thabo and consider the consequences of each possible course of action the couple may take.<\/p>\n<p>Questions include things like, \u201cIf you were Thabo, how would your parents react?\u201d, or \u201cIf you were Thabo, what would your strongest feeling be about this pregnancy?\u201d The subsequent class sessions continue to examine the role of boys and young men in preventing adolescent pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Activities such as \u2018Controversial statements\u2019, \u2018What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a woman?\u2019, and \u2018People and things\u2019, explore gender norms and stereotypes, and how they perpetuate the power imbalances which perpetuate sexual risk for young people, particularly girls.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2018People and things\u2019, an activity adapted from one developed for the Promundo H Toolkit, the class is divided into two groups with an imaginary line.<\/p>\n<p>One group of students are the people, and the other are the things. The class is then told: \u201cTHINGS: You cannot think, feel, or make decisions. You have to do what the \u201cpeople\u201d tell you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to move or do something, you have to ask the person for permission. PERSONS: You can think, feel, and make decisions. Furthermore, you can tell the things what to do.<br \/>\nAfter 5 minutes of acting out and inhabiting this inequitable dynamic, the facilitators lead a discussion of how it felt to inhabit each of the roles, why some individuals in society may be treated like people and others treated like things, and what kinds of factors in the participants\u2019 communities might normalize the differential treatment of people, including on the basis of gender.<\/p>\n<p>Each activity in the intervention package \u2013 which is delivered over five class sessions \u2013 corresponds to a known determinant of adolescent sexual behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Through engaging in these activities, adolescents are equipped with knowledge, given an opportunity to challenge beliefs and improve their understanding of social influences, and \u2013 ultimately \u2013 alter their intentions and behavior in relation to sexual health, including by avoiding unprotected sex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470693.827642.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470693.827642.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470693.827642-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470705.190574.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470705.190574.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686470705.190574-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. In a blog for World Contraception Day, Xanthe Hunt and colleagues discuss the &#8216;If I Were Thabo&#8217; intervention to prevent unintended pregnancy and promote sexual health, which is being tested in the THABO study registered at the ISRCTN registry. Adolescent behavior is notoriously hard to change. 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