Exact(6)
Given the relatively limited in-depth research on interventions working with men and boys, it is perhaps unsurprising that many of the papers are reflections and overviews of the topic, rather than in-depth empirical analyses of interventions.
An ongoing challenge for all interventions working with YPLWH is that they are likely to miss a substantial proportion of this population because they recruit through clinics and support centres.
Very few interventions working with men have really engaged with how efforts towards changing masculinities can also address economic marginalisation (Gibbs et al. 2012; Greig 2009; Raj et al. 2014).
Given the growth in the number of programmes and interventions working with men and boys globally, research exploring the processes involved, the challenges, problems, limitations and politics of this kind of work is surprisingly limited.
Many of the papers in this issue describe interventions working with subordinated men, who experience intersecting disadvantage on the basis of age, ethnicity or colour, socio-economic status or class.
This lack of an explicit theory of change within interventions working with men and boys means it is sometimes unclear as to what change is sought, whether is it a change in health-related behaviours (for instance a reduction in perpetration of violence) or a wider change in the dominant form of masculinity in the group being addressed.
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Efficacy trials test whether interventions work under optimal, highly controlled conditions whereas effectiveness trials test whether interventions work with typical clients and providers in real-world settings.
Mechanisms relate to the legitimacy of palliative care and individual capacity, engaging with family, the timing of intervention, working with complexity and the recognition of dying.
The intervention comprised a 45-consultation provided by an experienced general practitioner (GP) with an expertise in infant sleep (BS) or a registered nurse (CL) trained to provide the same intervention working with the GP's supervision.
The framework includes two cognitive mechanisms (the legitimacy of palliative care and individual capacity), and behavioural mechanisms (engaging with family; the timing of intervention; working with complexity; and the recognition of dying) through which staff integrate palliative and stroke care.
Two cognitive mechanisms relate to the legitimacy of palliative care and individual capacity, whilst behavioural mechanisms relate to engaging with family, the timing of intervention, working with complexity and the recognition of dying.
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