scholarly journals Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Evidence from Community Based Cross Sectional Study in Western Ethiopia

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
SG Abeya ◽  
MF Afework ◽  
AW Yalew
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women ◽  
Western Ethiopia

scholarly journals Intimate partner violence and maternal depression during pregnancy: A community-based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. e0220003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sewhareg Belay ◽  
Ayalew Astatkie ◽  
Maria Emmelin ◽  
Sven Gudmund Hinderaker
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Intimate partner violence against reproductive age women during COVID-19 pandemic in northern Ethiopia 2020: a community-based cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gebremeskel Tukue Gebrewahd ◽  
Gebreamlak Gebremedhn Gebremeskel ◽  
Degena Bahrey Tadesse
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women ◽  
Staying At Home

Abstract Background As the global pandemic of corona virus (COVID-19) spreads across continents and communities, people are forced to respond with strict preventive measures such as staying at home and keeping social distance. In relation with these measures, particularly with the staying at home, increasing rates of domestic violence are beginning to surface. Hence, this study was aimed at determining the prevalence of intimate partner violence against reproductive age women in northern Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A community-based cross-sectional study design was employed. The data were collected during the period of April to May, 2020 using interviews and a self-administered standard questionnaire. The data were entered into the Epi-data manager version 4.2 and exported to SPSS 22 for analysis. The descriptive analysis such as frequency distribution, percentage, and measures of central tendency were used. This was followed by binary and multiple logistic regression analysis to infer the association between the outcome and independent variables. Results A total of 682 participants were included in the study. The prevalence of intimate partner violence against women was found to stood at 24.6% with psychological violence being the most prevalent (13.3%), followed by physical (8.3%) and sexual violence (5.3%). Women were more likely to suffer from violence if they were housewives (AOR, 95% CI (18.062 (10.088, 32.342))), age less than 30 (AOR, 95% CI (23.045 (5.627, 94.377))), women with arrange marriage (AOR, 95% CI (2.535 (1.572, 4.087))) and women with husband’s age being “between” 31–40 (AOR, CI 95% (2.212 (1.024, 4.777))). Conclusions This study showed the presence of a relatively high prevalence of intimate partner violence against women. Thus, public reporting of any cases or concerns of abuse is critical and vital to mitigate the problem.

scholarly journals Individual and societal risk factors of attitudes justifying intimate partner violence against women: a multilevel cross-sectional study

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e037993
Author(s):  
Celia Serrano-Montilla ◽  
Luis M. Lozano ◽  
Michael Bender ◽  
Jose-Luis Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

ObjectivesAttitudes justifying intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) can play an essential role in explaining the prevalence of such public health problem. The study aim was to explain attitudes justifying IPVAW identifying individual and societal risk factors.Design and settingA multilevel cross-sectional study of the World Values Survey (WVS) in 54 global countries.ParticipantsA representative transnational community-based sample of 81 516 participants (47.8% male, 52.1% female), aged mean of 42.41.MeasuresAttitudes justifying IPVAW, sociodemographic, sexism, self-transcendence and conservation values were measured using questions from WVS. Country and regional gender inequality were assessed by Gender Inequality Index.ResultsAround 16% (intraclass correlation=0.16) of individual differences in attitudes justifying IPVAW are explained by countries. Statistically significant predictors at individual and country level were: sex (B=−0.24, 95% CI −0.27 to −0.22), age (B=−0.08 to −0.25, 95% CI −0.34 to −0.03), marital status (B=0.09 to 0.23, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.33), educational level (B=−0.10 to −0.14, 95% CI −0.20 to −0.04), self-transcendence values (B=−0.10, 95% CI −0.20 to −0.12), sexism (B=0.21, 95% CI 0.15 to 0.28), country (B=2.18, 95% CI 1.09 to 3.26) and regional (B=2.23, 95% CI 1.04 to 3.42) gender inequality. Country gender inequality (B=−0.18, p=0.12) and regional gender inequality (B=−0.21, p=0.10) did not moderate the associations between self-transcendence values and attitudes justifying IPVAW. In the same way for sexism, data did not provide support for a moderating role of country gender inequality (B=0.22, p=0.26) and regional gender inequality (B=0.10, p=0.66).ConclusionsIndividual and country predictors accounted for differences in attitudes justifying IPVAW. However, neither gender inequality of country nor gender inequality of region interacted with sexism and self-transcendence values. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed.

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