Assessing the Impact of an Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Uganda

"SHARE aimed to reduce IPV and used methodologies from two proven successful violence prevention frameworks: Stepping Stones (Welbourn, 1995) and the Resource Guide for Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence (Michau \& Naker, 2003). SHARE promoted a process of social change based on the Transtheoretical Model's Stages of Change Theory (Prochaska \& DiClemente, 1983; Prochaska \& Velicer, 1997) which posits that although people realize they need to make changes in their life, they do it in stages instead of one major life change. There are five main stages of change: (1) pre-contemplation, (2) contemplation, (3) preparation for action, (4) action and (5) maintenance.~We hypothesized that repeated exposure to the ideas included in SHARE would encourage men and women to begin a process of change that results in preventive behavior."