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Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast
BACKGROUND: Serious forms of violence against women include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The aim of this study was to determine if FGM is associated with IPV, using data obtained from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2012 in Ivory Coast. METHODS: Partic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24451017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-14-13 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Serious forms of violence against women include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The aim of this study was to determine if FGM is associated with IPV, using data obtained from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2012 in Ivory Coast. METHODS: Participants for this study were drawn from the 2011-12 Ivory Coast Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS), a nationally representative sample of 10060 women aged 15 to 49 years. The analysis of this paper is restricted to the sample of women who responded to the FGM and domestic violence modules (N = 5005). RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of physical violence was 24.8%, sexual violence, 5.7%, and emotional violence, 19.0%, and the prevalence of any lifetime IPV was 32.1%. In all, 40.6% reported female genital cutting or mutilation (FGM). Women reporting FGM were two times as likely to experience sexual IPV (AOR: 1.96, CI: 1.29-2.98), while other subtypes of IPV were higher in women reporting FGM but they were not significant. Of the socio-demographic covariates, urban residence and having a primary education were associated with most subtypes of IPV, while being a Muslim seemed protective from any type, sexual and emotional IPV. Having seen the father beating the mother was positively associated with most IPV subtypes, and having been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the previous 12 months was associated with physical and sexual IPV. CONCLUSION: Significant rates of FGM and IPV were found among this sample of Ivorian women calling for the need for multiple strategies to reduce FGM and IPV. |
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spelling | pubmed-39002572014-01-24 Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast Peltzer, Karl Pengpid, Supa BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Serious forms of violence against women include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The aim of this study was to determine if FGM is associated with IPV, using data obtained from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2012 in Ivory Coast. METHODS: Participants for this study were drawn from the 2011-12 Ivory Coast Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS), a nationally representative sample of 10060 women aged 15 to 49 years. The analysis of this paper is restricted to the sample of women who responded to the FGM and domestic violence modules (N = 5005). RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of physical violence was 24.8%, sexual violence, 5.7%, and emotional violence, 19.0%, and the prevalence of any lifetime IPV was 32.1%. In all, 40.6% reported female genital cutting or mutilation (FGM). Women reporting FGM were two times as likely to experience sexual IPV (AOR: 1.96, CI: 1.29-2.98), while other subtypes of IPV were higher in women reporting FGM but they were not significant. Of the socio-demographic covariates, urban residence and having a primary education were associated with most subtypes of IPV, while being a Muslim seemed protective from any type, sexual and emotional IPV. Having seen the father beating the mother was positively associated with most IPV subtypes, and having been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the previous 12 months was associated with physical and sexual IPV. CONCLUSION: Significant rates of FGM and IPV were found among this sample of Ivorian women calling for the need for multiple strategies to reduce FGM and IPV. BioMed Central 2014-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3900257/ /pubmed/24451017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-14-13 Text en Copyright © 2014 Peltzer and Pengpid; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Peltzer, Karl Pengpid, Supa Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title | Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title_full | Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title_fullStr | Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title_full_unstemmed | Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title_short | Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast |
title_sort | female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the ivory coast |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24451017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-14-13 |
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