Personal beliefs and social norms regarding the sexual exploitation of girls in age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Brazil: a mixed-methods study

• Autor(a) principal: Ignacio, Caroline Ferraz
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cerdeira, Linda, Cislaghi, Beniamino, Lauro, Giovanna, Buller, Ana Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• DOI: 10.1186/s12978-022-01437-3
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/101345; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01437-3
• topic: Youth; Sex; Relationships; Gender norms; Urban health; Masculinity; Brazil; Latin America; Adolescent; Adult; Brazil; Female; Focus Groups; Humans; Male; Marriage; Sexual Behavior; Social Norms

Ethical approval was obtained from the Committee for Ethics in Research of the Philosophy and Humanities Centre of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CAAE 65254917.0.0000.5582) and from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Ethics Reference no. 11958). All participants were provided oral explanations of the study, their rights, including their right to not answer questions or to leave the study at any moment, measures of confidentiality, and information regarding the supervising ethics board, which were all available on the Term of Free and Informed Consent (TFIC), before signing it. The TFIC was signed by all participants and guardians provided additional signed consent for minors. Enumerators were experienced in addressing sensitive topics with minors and adults in high-conflict communities and were subject to additional training focused on ethics and confidentiality to promote participant security. Interviews and surveys were also gender-paired to promote the comfort of the respondents.