Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia

OBJECTIVE: To assess factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staffs of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia. RESULTS: From the total number of participants, 188 (52.8%) had shift work and 110 (30.9%) of these had day and night shift. About half 180 (50.2%) of the participan...

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Autores principales: Galu, Sara Bahta, Gebru, Haftu Berhe, Abebe, Yohannes Tesfay, Gebrekidan, Kahsu Gebrekirstos, Aregay, Atsede Fantahun, Hailu, Kidane Gebremicheal, Abera, Gerezgiher Buruh
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31910890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4860-5
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author Galu, Sara Bahta
Gebru, Haftu Berhe
Abebe, Yohannes Tesfay
Gebrekidan, Kahsu Gebrekirstos
Aregay, Atsede Fantahun
Hailu, Kidane Gebremicheal
Abera, Gerezgiher Buruh
author_facet Galu, Sara Bahta
Gebru, Haftu Berhe
Abebe, Yohannes Tesfay
Gebrekidan, Kahsu Gebrekirstos
Aregay, Atsede Fantahun
Hailu, Kidane Gebremicheal
Abera, Gerezgiher Buruh
author_sort Galu, Sara Bahta
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description OBJECTIVE: To assess factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staffs of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia. RESULTS: From the total number of participants, 188 (52.8%) had shift work and 110 (30.9%) of these had day and night shift. About half 180 (50.2%) of the participants face sexual violence similarly, 53 (14.9%) of the victims of violence performed by their boss. In multiple logistic regression analysis young age [AOR: 2.319 (1.059–5.075)], educational status of secondary school or less [AOR: 1.981 (1.126–3.485)], office and students related workplace [AOR: 4.143 (1.975–8.687), 2.887 (1.396–5.973)], having night shift [AOR: 2.131 (1.258–3.611)], having multiple partner (AOR: 8.916 (3.052–26.047)] and knowing other female violated in office [AOR: 3.920 (2.326–6.606)] were the factors associated with sexual violence.
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spelling pubmed-69457122020-01-09 Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia Galu, Sara Bahta Gebru, Haftu Berhe Abebe, Yohannes Tesfay Gebrekidan, Kahsu Gebrekirstos Aregay, Atsede Fantahun Hailu, Kidane Gebremicheal Abera, Gerezgiher Buruh BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: To assess factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staffs of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia. RESULTS: From the total number of participants, 188 (52.8%) had shift work and 110 (30.9%) of these had day and night shift. About half 180 (50.2%) of the participants face sexual violence similarly, 53 (14.9%) of the victims of violence performed by their boss. In multiple logistic regression analysis young age [AOR: 2.319 (1.059–5.075)], educational status of secondary school or less [AOR: 1.981 (1.126–3.485)], office and students related workplace [AOR: 4.143 (1.975–8.687), 2.887 (1.396–5.973)], having night shift [AOR: 2.131 (1.258–3.611)], having multiple partner (AOR: 8.916 (3.052–26.047)] and knowing other female violated in office [AOR: 3.920 (2.326–6.606)] were the factors associated with sexual violence. BioMed Central 2020-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6945712/ /pubmed/31910890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4860-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data.
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Abebe, Yohannes Tesfay
Gebrekidan, Kahsu Gebrekirstos
Aregay, Atsede Fantahun
Hailu, Kidane Gebremicheal
Abera, Gerezgiher Buruh
Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia
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title_full Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia
title_fullStr Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia
title_short Factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of Mekelle University, North Ethiopia
title_sort factors associated with sexual violence among female administrative staff of mekelle university, north ethiopia
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31910890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4860-5
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