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Does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? Longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is highly prevalent and has substantial implications for women’s health. Changing IPV attitudes is one pathway to reduce IPV. While evidence suggests that interventions targeting individuals may change IPV attitudes, the effect of wider-scale interventions...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Robin A, Hadd, Alexandria R, Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria, Wiederkehr, Katjana, Jamshed, Farheen, Benmarhnia, Tarik, Clark, Cari Jo
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Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10635179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37961711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.23.23297413
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author Richardson, Robin A
Hadd, Alexandria R
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria
Wiederkehr, Katjana
Jamshed, Farheen
Benmarhnia, Tarik
Clark, Cari Jo
author_facet Richardson, Robin A
Hadd, Alexandria R
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria
Wiederkehr, Katjana
Jamshed, Farheen
Benmarhnia, Tarik
Clark, Cari Jo
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description BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is highly prevalent and has substantial implications for women’s health. Changing IPV attitudes is one pathway to reduce IPV. While evidence suggests that interventions targeting individuals may change IPV attitudes, the effect of wider-scale interventions, such as legislation, remain unknown. METHODS: We used individual-level IPV attitudes information collected between 1997 and 2020 by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which we linked with national-level domestic violence (DV) legislation information. We evaluated the effect of adoption of DV legislation on changes in IPV attitudes using a difference-in-differences study design that controlled for time-varying country-level confounding and accounted for staggered timing of legislation adoption. FINDINGS: Our sample included 2,184,047 women from 60 countries and 390,877 men from 40 countries. After controlling for country-level confounders, adoption of DV legislation reduced IPV acceptability among women (average treatment effect among treated (ATT) = −0.07, 95% CI: −0.16, 0.06) and men (ATT = −0.11, 95% CI: −0.22, 0.03) although estimates were imprecise and included the null. INTERPRETATION: DV legislation may reduce permissive IPV attitudes, especially among men, although conclusions should be interpreted cautiously due to imprecise estimates. FUNDING: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5R00HD104896).
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spelling pubmed-106351792023-11-13 Does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? Longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries Richardson, Robin A Hadd, Alexandria R Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria Wiederkehr, Katjana Jamshed, Farheen Benmarhnia, Tarik Clark, Cari Jo medRxiv Article BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is highly prevalent and has substantial implications for women’s health. Changing IPV attitudes is one pathway to reduce IPV. While evidence suggests that interventions targeting individuals may change IPV attitudes, the effect of wider-scale interventions, such as legislation, remain unknown. METHODS: We used individual-level IPV attitudes information collected between 1997 and 2020 by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which we linked with national-level domestic violence (DV) legislation information. We evaluated the effect of adoption of DV legislation on changes in IPV attitudes using a difference-in-differences study design that controlled for time-varying country-level confounding and accounted for staggered timing of legislation adoption. FINDINGS: Our sample included 2,184,047 women from 60 countries and 390,877 men from 40 countries. After controlling for country-level confounders, adoption of DV legislation reduced IPV acceptability among women (average treatment effect among treated (ATT) = −0.07, 95% CI: −0.16, 0.06) and men (ATT = −0.11, 95% CI: −0.22, 0.03) although estimates were imprecise and included the null. INTERPRETATION: DV legislation may reduce permissive IPV attitudes, especially among men, although conclusions should be interpreted cautiously due to imprecise estimates. FUNDING: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5R00HD104896). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10635179/ /pubmed/37961711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.23.23297413 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
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Benmarhnia, Tarik
Clark, Cari Jo
Does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? Longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries
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title_full_unstemmed Does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? Longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries
title_short Does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? Longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries
title_sort does domestic violence legislation reduce permissive attitudes about intimate partner violence? longitudinal evidence from men and women from 61 countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10635179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37961711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.23.23297413
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