Paper context
depression
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures, gender-transformative economic empowerment interventions, reduced intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration by young men. The study highlights the link between depression and IPV across cultural and global contexts and provides new evidence that men’s reduction of IPV perpetration was attributed to improved mental health. Findings from this study can be utilized to refine intervention and address unacceptably high levels of IPV in South Africa and globally, specifically in low-income nations.