Laura Washington

Dados Biográficos

ID3791076
NOMELaura Washington
PRENOMESLaura
SOBRENOMEWashington
ASSINATURAWASHINGTON L
AFILIAÇÕESProject Empower
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS19
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR19
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Depressive symptomatology and their correlates among caregivers of children and adolescents living with HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Open AccessReuben Christopher Moyo, Eugene Lee Davids et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2026

    Background Few studies have examined factors linked to depressive symptomatology among caregivers of children and adolescents living with HIV (CALHIV). This study estimated prevalence of depressive symptoms and identified associated factors among caregivers of CALHIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Methods We used baseline data from a cluster-randomised controlled trial of the impact of a cash transfer program and an economic empowerment intervent…

  • How do community contexts shape relationship dynamics? A case study of young people living in informal settlements in eThekwini municipality, South Africa

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Eliezer Stern et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    For young people intimate relationships are a key space in which health and wellbeing are strengthened or undermined. This study seeks to understand how contextual factors shape relationship quality among young heterosexual people in informal settlements in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa. In-depth interviews with (N = 30) young (ages 18-30) heterosexual women and men living in informal settlements, stakeholders (N = 13, aged 18+) and partic…

  • Relationship-level factors influencing intimate partner violence and relationship quality among young couples in an urban informal settlement in South Africa

    Open AccessEliezer Stern, Leon Washington et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026

    Couples programming is an evidence-based strategy to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and strengthen relationship quality. Stepping Stones Creating Futures (SSCF) is a 21-session participatory programme for young adults (18-30 years) that integrates gender equity, communication and livelihoods skills, and has been evaluated in informal settlements in eThekwini, South Africa. Zithandani SSCF is an adaptation engaging young heterosexual coup…

  • Attempted Femicide

    Open AccessRachel Jewkes, Shibe Mhlongo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2026

    Purpose Women often do not recognize when they experience attempted femicide, so another way of measuring it is needed for research. We examined narrative accounts of femicide attempts, and analysed data to determine whether we could systematically expand the definition of attempted femicide, for the purposes of research. Methods We recruited a non-probability sample of 3742 women into the Fedisa ModikologoStudy. They were 18–45 years and had exp…

  • Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Leon Washington et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Marginalised young women and men in South Africa experience and perpetrate high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV), shaped by their contexts and life histories. To address this, we co-developed Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+) with young women and men living in marginalised communities to reduce IPV, strengthen livelihoods and improve mental health. We assessed the intervention’s feasibility, acceptability and potential imp…

  • Young Men's Experiences of Being Fathered and Absent Father's Experience

    Open AccessSmanga Mkhwanazi, Rachel Jewkes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Youth Studies2024Citada por: 2Referências: 28

    The impact of absent fathers can be a significant challenge for young people, but particularly for young men. Our study drew on 19 in-depth interviews with young men living in urban informal settlements in South Africa, to understand how they understood the impact of biological father absence. Young men described an idealized fatherhood role in which biological fathers provided economic support, active fathering (including emotional support), and…

  • Challenges and opportunities in coproduction

    Open AccessJenevieve Mannell, Leon Washington et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Coproduction is widely recognised as essential to the development of effective and sustainable complex health interventions. Through involving potential end users in the design of interventions, coproduction provides a means of challenging power relations and ensuring the intervention being implemented accurately reflects lived experiences. Yet, how do we ensure that coproduction delivers on this promise? What methods or techniques can we use to …

  • A latent class analysis of young women’s co-occurring health risks in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa

    Open AccessLinda J Brown, Tarylee Reddy et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    In South Africa, substance use, violence, and HIV risk disproportionately affect young poor Black women. Few studies have explicitly measured the co-occurrence of these health risks or the impact on mental health and wellbeing for this population. To this aim, we use a person-centred approach to explore the clustering of health risks among young Black women from urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa, enrolled in an intervention trial…

  • Adaptation and pre-test of a shortened Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention focused on HIV for young men in rural South Africa

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Dumile Gumede et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Men’s engagement in HIV prevention and treatment is suboptimal, including in South Africa. We sought to address this through adapting an evidence-based intervention, Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SSCF), to strengthen its HIV content and provide a more scalable (shorter) intervention in rural South Africa. We then conducted a mixed methods pre-test of the intervention among young men aged 18–35 years. To adapt SSCF, we reviewed the current…

  • Pathways of change

    Open AccessEliezer Stern, Samantha Willan et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    A critical component of evaluations of the effectiveness of intimate partner violence prevention programmes involves understanding pathways of change among individuals who participate in such programmes, and the intervention or contextual elements that support or hinder these. This paper draws on qualitative evaluations of four intimate partner violence prevention programmes in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Tajikistan conducted as part of the W…

  • Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Among Young People

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Leon Washington et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2020

    PURPOSE: Young people, not in formal employment or education, face exceedingly high levels of intimate partner violence (IPV). We evaluated whether Stepping Stones and Creating Futures, compared with a wait-list control, can reduce IPV and strengthen livelihoods. METHODS: A cluster randomized controlled trial with 34 clusters in urban informal settlements in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa. Participant inclusion criteria were aged 18-30 year…

  • How do programmes to prevent intimate partner violence among the general population impact women with disabilities? Post-hoc analysis of three randomised controlled trials

    Open AccessKristin Dunkle, A Gibbs et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Women with disabilities experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) than women without disabilities. There remains limited evidence about whether IPV prevention interventions for the general population have benefits for women with disabilities that compare to those for women without disabilities. Using data from IPV prevention randomised controlled trials in diverse locations (Rwanda, South Africa and Afghanistan), we…

  • Gender role conflict and sexual health and relationship practices amongst young men living in urban informal settlements in South Africa

    Open AccessKalysha Closson, Abigail M Hatcher et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Qualitative research suggests that men's inability to achieve dominant forms of masculinity may be related to HIV-risk behaviours and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Using clustered cross-sectional data, we assessed how young men's gender role conflict was associated with HIV-risk behaviours in urban informal settlements in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Gender Role Conflict and Stress (GRC/S) was measured using a South African adapta…

  • Constructing, reproducing and challenging masculinities in a participatory intervention in urban informal settlements in South Africa

    Open AccessA Gibbs, H Myrttinen et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Participatory interventions with men and boys to transform masculinities are increasingly common to improve health and reduce intimate partner violence and HIV-related risk. Yet, despite this, there has been little consideration of how facilitators' own masculinities shape interventions. In this analysis of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures, a gender-transformative programme delivered to young men (aged 18-30 years) in urban informal settlemen…

  • Differential impact on men in an IPV prevention intervention

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Nada Abdelatif et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Citada por: 1Referências: 22

    Working with men to prevent their perpetration of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence is increasingly recognised as effective. However, in any given context there are a multiplicity of masculinities, each of which has a different association with violence perpetration. There remains lack of clarity about whether such interventions impact all men and masculinities equally. We undertook a post-hoc analysis of men involved in t…

  • Are women’s experiences of emotional and economic intimate partner violence associated with HIV-risk behaviour? A cross-sectional analysis of young women in informal settlements in South Africa

    A Gibbs, Kristin Dunkle et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    Women's experiences of emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) and economic IPV are rarely considered in research on women's HIV-risk. Using cross-sectional data of young women (18-30) in Durban, South Africa, we assessed whether women's experiences of emotional IPV and economic IPV were independently associated with six HIV-risk behaviours. Amongst 680 women enrolled between September 2015 and September 2016, past year emotional IPV (78.1%) an…

  • Associations between poverty, mental health and substance use, gender power, and intimate partner violence amongst young (18-30) women and men in urban informal settlements in South Africa

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Rachel Jewkes et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2018

    Research suggests that poverty is a key driver of intimate partner violence (IPV), however detailed analysis suggests that this relationship is not clear, either for women's experience or men's perpetration of IPV. We explored associations between poverty and IPV using cross-sectional data from the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures cluster randomized control trial, in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa, with young (18-30) peopl…

  • The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV-risk behaviours in Durban, South Africa

    Open AccessA Gibbs, Leon Washington et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    NCT03022370 . Registered 13 January 2017, retrospectively registered

  • Creating Futures

    Alison Misselhorn, Mildred Mushinga et al.ARTICLESex Education2014

    Comprehending praxis is a critical step in developing interventions that can have a real-world impact on people's lives. In this paper, we reflect on the lessons learned in the development of a curriculum for young people living in informal settlements in eThekwini, who are exposed to numerous vulnerabilities, including HIV-related risks associated with precarious urban livelihoods. Behavioural interventions have not led to commensurate reduction…