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

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...

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Autores principales: Girmay, Alem, Mariye, Teklewoini, Bahrey, Degena, Hailu, Berihu, Iyasu, Assefa, G/medhin, G/amlak, Demisse, Binyam, Teklay, Girmay
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4615-3
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author Girmay, Alem
Mariye, Teklewoini
Bahrey, Degena
Hailu, Berihu
Iyasu, Assefa
G/medhin, G/amlak
Demisse, Binyam
Teklay, Girmay
author_facet Girmay, Alem
Mariye, Teklewoini
Bahrey, Degena
Hailu, Berihu
Iyasu, Assefa
G/medhin, G/amlak
Demisse, Binyam
Teklay, Girmay
author_sort Girmay, Alem
collection PubMed
description 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.
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spelling pubmed-67600562019-09-30 Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study Girmay, Alem Mariye, Teklewoini Bahrey, Degena Hailu, Berihu Iyasu, Assefa G/medhin, G/amlak Demisse, Binyam Teklay, Girmay BMC Res Notes Research Note 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. BioMed Central 2019-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6760056/ /pubmed/31551075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4615-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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 Note
Girmay, Alem
Mariye, Teklewoini
Bahrey, Degena
Hailu, Berihu
Iyasu, Assefa
G/medhin, G/amlak
Demisse, Binyam
Teklay, Girmay
Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title_full Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title_fullStr Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title_full_unstemmed Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title_short Intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia 2018, and community based study
title_sort intimate partner physical violence and associated factors in reproductive age married women in aksum town, tigray, ethiopia 2018, and community based study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4615-3
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