DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38668
title: A Community Partnership with Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team to Explore Socio-ecological and Place-based Determinants of Interpersonal Violence Experienced by Transgender Women of Color, Los Angeles, California, 2020
title: Archival Version

description: The goals of this project are to extend the Decker et al. (2018) socio-ecological model to include place as an additional determinant of interpersonal violence for transgender women, and to identify unmet prevention needs and survival strategies of those who have experienced interpersonal violence. The research team conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 16 transgender women in Los Angeles who, at the time of study, were current or past residents of a bridge housing program. Participants were asked to discuss daily life experiences, emphasizing places of danger and safety for themselves and other transgender women, and survival and resilience strategies for coping with violence. Participants also discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their well-being and their access to healthcare (HIV/AIDS, gender affirmation, physical, and mental health).
description: The purpose of this study is to examine the role of place in experiences of interpersonal violence and resilience strategies at individual, community, and institutional levels among transgender women.
description: Participants completed in-depth, semi-structured interviews between May and July 2020. Interviews were audio-recoded, conducted in English or Spanish, and lasted between 30 and 180 minutes. Interviews were then transcribed verbatim, with Spanish language interviews translated by bilingual staff members. Participants received a $100 gift card upon interview completion. Two research assistants coded each transcript guided by grounded theory analysis, including both deductive and inductive analysis. Assistants met with the principal investigator to review themes and discuss codes to ensure consistency.
description: Four major themes were covered in interviews: Daily life experience: Daily routines before and after the COVID-19 stay-at-home order established during the study time period, with special emphasis on on place types and emotions felt when they are at the places described Safety and danger: How violence has affected participants, places where violence is common or are dangerous for transgender women of color, places where participants feel safe Resilience and survival strategies: Individual, social support, and external resources for coping with violence; laws, policies, and police practices that increase or reduce violence toward transgender women COVID-19: Impacts of COVID-19 on accessing HIV and other types of health care, concerns about the virus, impacts on quality of life and mental state
description: Purposive sampling was used to recruit a racially diverse sample of transgender women who were current or past residents at a bridge housing program in Los Angeles. Of the 16 participants, 10 were current residents and 6 were past residents.
description: Datasets: DS1: A Community Partnership with Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team to Explore Socio-ecological and Place-based Determinants of Interpersonal Violence Experienced by Transgender Women of Color, Los Angeles, California, 2020
description: Transgender women who were current or past residents of a bridge housing program in Los Angeles at the time of study.
description: telephone interviewThis study is part of Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) Qualitative Data Sharing (QDS) project.ICPSR has zipped the 16 interview transcripts into a qualitative data package. This package is available for restricted download. Please refer to the ICPSR README documentation for more information.