scholarly journals Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alem Girmay ◽  
Teklewoini Mariye ◽  
Degena Bahrey ◽  
Berihu Hailu ◽  
Assefa Iyasu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Associated Factors ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Intimate Partner Physical Violence

Abstract Objective As reports indicated about 1 in 3 of women worldwide have experienced physical violence but there is no enough reports on the current status of the act in Aksum town so this study intended to identify the prevalence and factors associated with physical violence of reproductive age married women in Aksum town Tigray Ethiopia. Result A total of 398 women were enrolled in the study and making a response rate of 100%. 112 (28.1%) women had physical violence in their lifetime. Educational level of women (AOR = 2.2; 95% CI 1.28, 6.7), Occupation of women’s (AOR = 3.8; 95% CI 2.32, 12.8), age of husband (AOR = 5.2; 95% CI 2.3, 11.5), husbands having other wife (AOR = 7.8; 95% CI 4.2, 18.9) and husbands having alcohol habits (AOR = 3.8; 95% CI 1.74, 14.7) had significant association with physical violence.

scholarly journals Geographic variation and determinants of help seeking behaviour among married women subjected to intimate partner violence: evidence from national population survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muluken Dessalegn Muluneh ◽  
Yeshemebet Worku Alemu ◽  
Maereg Wagnew Meazaw
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Multiple Logistic Regression ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Controlling Behaviour

Abstract Background Help seeking behaviour amongst married women who experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has received limited attention in Africa. This study examines the geographic variation and investigates determinants of help seeking behaviour amongst married women in Ethiopia. Methods This study analysed data from the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). Data was extracted for married women age 15–49 years old who experienced IPV. Factors associated with help seeking behaviour were identified using multiple logistic regression adjusted for clustering and weighing. The weighted proportion of factors associated with help seeking behaviour was exported to ArcGIS to conduct autocorrelation analysis. Results The prevalence of help seeking behaviour among married women who experienced IPV was 19.8% (95% CI: 15.9–24.3%). Only 9.2% of them sought help from a formal source (such as police, lawyer or doctor). Multiple logistic regression analyses showed physical violence (Adjusted odds ratio (AOR)=2.76), educational attainment (AOR=2.1), a partner’s alcohol consumption (AOR=1.9), partner’s controlling behaviour (AOR= 2.4), partner’s employment status, (AOR= 1.9) and wealth index (AOR=2.8) were significantly associated factors with help seeking behaviour among married women who experienced IPV in Ethiopia (P< 0.05). Women in Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harari, Western and Eastern Amhara, and Afar had the lowest odds of help seeking behaviour (P< 0.001) after experiencing IPV. Conclusion The findings of this study suggest that poor help seeking behaviour for married women experiencing IPV is a significant public health problem in Ethiopia. Multiple interrelated factors were associated with poor help seeking behaviour. These factors include women’s level of educational attainment, women experiencing physical violence, partners exhibiting controlling behaviour, partner’s alcohol consumption, the employment status of the partner, and wealth status of the household were important predictors of help seeking behaviour. Policies and interventions need to be tailored to address these factors to improve women’s health outcomes and to prevent IPV.

scholarly journals Empowerment, partner’s behaviours and intimate partner physical violence among married women in Uganda

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Kwagala ◽  
Stephen Ojiambo Wandera ◽  
Patricia Ndugga ◽  
Allen Kabagenyi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Intimate Partner Physical Violence

scholarly journals Prevalence and Associated Factors of Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women During COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions: A Community-Based Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052097622
Author(s):  
Abay Woday Tadesse ◽  
Setegn Mihret Tarekegn ◽  
Gebeyaw Biset Wagaw ◽  
Muluken Dessalegn Muluneh ◽  
Ayesheshim Muluneh Kassa
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Systematic Random Sampling

Ethiopia has taken unprecedented preventive measures, such as confinement to home and closure of schools and offices to halt the spread of Corona virus pandemic in the country. Unfortunately, such orders may have been associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) against women but there is no study conducted to assess the magnitude of IPV during the lock-downs in the country. Thus, this study intended to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of IPV against women during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on sample of 617 married or cohabited women. A systematic random sampling technique was employed to identify and enroll women who are married. A logistic regression analysis was used to identify the predictors of IPV among women and all statistical analyses were carried out using STATA 14.2. In this study, amongst the 589 married women who were included in the analysis, 22.4% [95% CI: 19.1%, 25.9%] were experienced at least one form of IPV. Additionally, 11.0%, 20.0%, and 13.8% of women also experienced physical, psychological, and sexual IPVs respectively. After adjusting for covariate; being illiterate [AOR=2.37: 95% CI 1.29, 4.35], having illiterate husband [AOR=2.67: 95% CI 1.36, 5.21], having substance user husband (alcohol, chat or cigarettes) [AOR=2.75: 95% CI 1.42, 5.34], and community tolerant attitude to violence [AOR=2.97: 95% CI 1.17, 7.61] were the independent predictors of IPV amongst married women. In conclusion, the prevalence of IPV among married women was comparable to the national pre-COVID figure of IPV. Therefore, national and regional governments should work toward enhancing gender equality, coupled with addressing risk factors at multiple levels, using community- and institution-based approaches to prevent IPV and to specifically achieve SDG5 of eliminating violence against women by 2030.

scholarly journals Intersectional community correlates of married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-189
Author(s):  
Laila Rahman ◽  
Janice Du Mont ◽  
Patricia O'Campo ◽  
Gillian Einstein
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Community Characteristics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Intimate Partner Physical Violence

BackgroundIn Bangladesh, little is known about community-level factors shaping married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV); it is also unknown if these factors interact with each other. We examined the (1) association between four residential community characteristics defined by the attributes of ever married women in those communities–younger age, lower education, higher participation in earning an income and poverty; and (2) two-way interactions between these community-level MIPPV correlates.MethodsWe used a cross-sectional sample comprising 14 557 currently married women who were living with their spouses from 911 Bangladeshi communities. Data were collected during 13–22 August 2015. Conflict Tactics Scale-2 measured the outcome–women’s current MIPPV experiences; and multilevel logistic regression models predicted this outcome.ResultsFour community characteristics including higher proportions of women’s earning an income and achieving higher education were not associated with their increased likelihood of experiencing MIPPV. However, women living in higher earning participation, higher educated communities were significantly more likely to experience MIPPV than those in lower earning participation, higher educated communities (predicted probability, p=0.30, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.34 vs p=0.24, 95% CI 0.22 to 0.25).ConclusionThis is the first study to examine interactions between women’s community-level MIPPV correlates in Bangladesh. Although we did not find support for the relationship between women’s most intersectional community-level locations and MIPPV, we did find a currently invisible vulnerable intersectional location: higher earning participation, higher educated communities. Bangladeshi violence against women prevention policies and programmes, therefore, need to engage with these particular communities to tackle head on male responses to these locations to reduce MIPPV.

scholarly journals Prevalence, associated factors, and disclosure of intimate partner violence among mothers in rural Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Stake ◽  
Saifuddin Ahmed ◽  
Wietse Tol ◽  
Salahuddin Ahmed ◽  
Nazma Begum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
The Past

Abstract Background The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence and associated factors of physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) among married women of reproductive age in a rural population in northeast Bangladesh. In addition, we examined women’s sharing and disclosure of violence experience with others. Methods This cross-sectional study uses data from a household survey of 3966 women conducted in 2014 in the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. Interviews were completed in respondent’s homes by trained local female interviewers. Results Twenty-nine percent (28.8%, 95% CI 27.4–30.3%) of the women reported ever experiencing physical or sexual IPV by their spouse; 13.2% (95% CI 12.1–14.3%) reported physical or sexual IPV in the past year. Of the 13.2%, 10.1% (95% CI 9.2–11.1%) reported experiencing physical IPV and 4.6% (95% CI 4.0–5.3%) reported sexual IPV. In a combined model, the adjusted odds of having experienced physical or sexual IPV in the past year were higher for women who were raised in households with history of IPV (AOR = 4.35, 95% CI 3.26–5.80); women with no formal education (AOR = 1.76, 95% CI 1.30–2.37); women whose husbands had no formal education (AOR = 1.63, 95% CI 1.22–2.17); Muslim (AOR = 1.63, 95% CI 1.03–2.57); women younger than age 30 (AOR = 1.53, 95% CI 1.11–2.12); and women who were members of an NGO or microcredit financial organization (AOR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.04–1.82). Wealth, parity, number of household members, and pregnancy status (pregnant, postpartum, neither pregnant nor postpartum) were not associated with physical or sexual IPV after adjusting for other factors. Data on disclosure was available for women who reported experiencing physical violence in the last year; only 31.8% of victims told someone about the violence they had experienced and 1% reported to police, clerics, health workers, or a counselor altogether. Conclusions In rural northeast Bangladesh, a high proportion of women of reproductive age experience physical or sexual IPV. Women do not often speak of these experiences, especially to anyone outside of family. Interventions aimed at preventing future IPV and addressing current IPV should focus on women who witnessed IPV in childhood, as well as younger women and less educated couples. Trial registration This study was registered as a Clinical Trial (Identifier: NCT01702402). https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01702402

scholarly journals Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence and Its Associated Factors in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mekuanint Simeneh Workie
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Occupation Number ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Health Concern

Abstract Background Intimate Partner Violence is a great public health concern with economic, physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health consequences. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of intimate partner violence against women and associated factors in Ethiopia.Methods A secondary data analysis was carried out based on the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2016. Both single and multilevel logistic regressions were employed.Results Among ever-married women (15-49 years old) who have been participated in this study, 22.3%, 7.6% and 6.1% of women have experienced emotional, sexual and physical violence respectively. The prevalence of intimate partner violence was found to be 25.6%. Partner’s desire for children, number of living children, women ever chewed chat, husband/partner drinks alcohol, respondent's occupation, number of other wives, type of place of residence were found to be significant determinants of intimate partner violence.Conclusion More than 1 in 4 ever married women in Ethiopia have experienced violence from their intimate partners. The government’s effort towards elimination of violence against women should be well strengthened by addressing intimate partner violence disparity in Ethiopian regions and also taking in to account other identified factors of intimate partner violence in this study.

scholarly journals Intimate Partner Violence and Associated Factors among Married Women live in Hosanna Town, Southern Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tigist Temesgen ◽  
Kedir Teji ◽  
Merga Dheresa ◽  
Agezegn Asegid
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Wealth Index ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Southern Ethiopia

Abstract ABSTRACT Background: Intimate partner violence is a problem of pandemic proportion affecting majority of world women the literature shows that pattern and underlying cause of women violence have socio-demographic and cultural difference is common in most parts of Ethiopia. To best of investigator knowledge no studies done on intimate partner violence on married women of reproductive age group in the study area. Therefore the aim of this study is to assess the intimate partner violence prevalence and its associated factors. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study design was used from March 1-15/2019 among 602 married women of Hosanna town Sothern Ethiopia. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select the study samples. Data were collected using pretested structured questionnaire, data entered into Epi-data version 3.1 software and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Binary and multivariate logistic regressions were used to identify factors associated with intimate partner violence. Results: The prevalence of overall intimate partner violence among married women was 58.8 %( 54.8-62.4). Of which 45.3% reported psychological violence, while 38.1% of participant reported sexual violence. Partners who drink alcohol [(AOR= 1.44, 95%CI=1.133-2.09)], Partner’s smoke cigarettes [(AOR=4.16,CI=2.117-8.20)], partner’s experience of Fighting habit with other people [(AOR=1.56 CI=1.06-2.29),Has another wife[(AOR=1.60 CI=1.09- 2.36)],low wealth index household [(AOR= 2.97 CI=1.41-6.27)], and medium wealth index households [(AOR=2.636 CI=1.173-5.920)] were significantly associated with intimate partner violence. Conclusion: Study indicated that prevalence of intimate partner violence found to be high and affected by various factors. The problem sought harmonious urgent attention at all levels of societal hierarchy including policymakers, local leader, institutions and local community gathering and structures. Key words : Intimate partner violence, associated factors, women, Hossana, Ethiopia

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