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Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research: a Concept Mapping Study

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The Engaging Men project aimed to identify facilitators, societal approaches to and support for domestic violence, and barriers to men’s participation in domestic violence research, assessing the importance of each factor. Participatory concept mapping was used with a convenience sample of men (n = 142) in person and online across Australia, Canada and the United States of America. Engaging Men identified 43 facilitators, societal approaches to and support for domestic violence, and/or barriers to men’s participation in domestic violence research. The strongest facilitators related to external connections, such as concern for women around them. Men also recognized societal approaches to and support for domestic violence and the strongest barriers centered on internal feelings, including fear, shame and guilt about being linked to domestic violence. This study suggests that providing a safe environment for men to express genuine thoughts, feeling and views about domestic violence is vital, yet rarely available in domestic violence research. Therefore, research opportunities need to be more effectively designed and incentivized to address challenging issues identified by men, such as fear, shame and guilt and offer meaningful opportunities to demonstrate positive change.

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  1. Community Animator is someone from the local community(ies) who knows how and where to engage individuals as change agents in the community.

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  1. Well Living House, Centre for Urban Health Solutions, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, ON, M5B 1T8, Canada

    Raglan Maddox

  2. Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT, Canberra, Australia

    Raglan Maddox

  3. Centre for Urban Health Solutions, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Patricia O’Campo, Aly Kassam & Alisa Velonis

  4. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Patricia O’Campo

  5. Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA

    Jonathan Grove

  6. The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Michael Yonas

  7. Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Carlos Chan

  8. School of Public Health, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Alisa Velonis

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Maddox, R., O’Campo, P., Grove, J. et al. Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research: a Concept Mapping Study. J Fam Viol 34, 781–793 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-018-9985-0

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