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024			_2doi: _a10.5014/ajot.2021.045542
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072			_aArticle
072			_aArticle
093			_a2021.09
100			_941552 _aNjelesani, Janet E., _eautor
245		1	_a“The Strength to Leave”: _bWomen With Disabilities Navigating Violent Relationships and Occupational Identities / _cJanet Njelesani; Gail Teachman; Ibrahim Richard Bangura
260			_bAmerican Occupational Therapy Association _bBethesda, Maryland
300			_b2021
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _ainformàtic _bc
338			_2rdacarrier _arecurs en línia _bcr
500			_aSpecial Issue on Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies
520			_aAbstract Importance: Being in an intimate relationship is a desired occupation for many people, in particular for women living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where relationships can provide material support, intimacy, and social integration and increase chances of survival. Objective: To explore accounts of navigating intimate relationships from women with disabilities in Sierra Leone. Design: A qualitative study was conducted, guided by a critical occupational approach and informed by feminist disability scholarship. Data were generated through interviews and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Setting: Community-based across four districts of Sierra Leone. Participants: Thirteen women with disabilities were recruited by means of snowball and purposive sampling. Results: Four themes were generated that illuminated the women’s experiences of intimate relationships as viewed through the lens of gender and disability dimensions. The overarching theme, “violence in intimate relationships,” describes the incidences of violence and abuse they experienced. “Becoming a wife” explores the women’s occupational identity wishes. “Leaving as an occupational rupture” illuminates the actions the women took to end the relationship. “Mothering as an occupational identity and resource” focuses on the women’s role as mothers and transitions in their occupations. Conclusions and Relevance: Taking their unique narratives into account draws attention to how the women have met their occupational needs and resisted occupational injustices, enabled by social and structural supports, including their children, disability social benefits, and their engagement in the disability rights movement. Implications are directed at socially committed occupational therapists to address systemic issues of disability- and gender-based violence. What This Article Adds: This study adds much-needed knowledge in an area in which there is a paucity of research: the experiences of women with disabilities being in an intimate relationship as a social occupation in an LMIC. The results illuminate the importance of considering the systemic issues that affect the social occupations of women with disabilities, particularly in light of the shift within occupational therapy practice toward developing a socially transformative focus. Tags: disability, disabled persons, Sierra Leone, violence, child
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aTeràpia Ocupacional _961334
650		0	_959754 _aDiscapacitat
650		0	_aDones _959798
650		0	_aViolència familiar _961470
650		0	_961240 _aSocietat
651		0	_aÀfrica _982882
653			_aDisability studies
653			_aViolència contra les dones
773			_tAmerican Journal of Occupational Therapy _dAmerican Occupational Therapy Association _g2021 JUL-AGO;75(4):7504180040 _022329 _974125
852			_2doi _a10.5014/ajot.2021.045542
856			_uhttps://ajot.aota.org.ezproxy.euit.fdsll.cat/issue.aspx#issueid=938450 _zAccés restringit usuaris EUIT
942			_2udc _cART
999			_c61451 _d61451
650			_aViolència envers les dones
650		7	_aDones maltractades _2lemac _996861