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Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey

BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a significant public health problem, and human rights abuse, and is associated with multiple adverse physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health effects. The current study aimed to determine the magnitude of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its determin...

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Autores principales: Kebede, Sewnet Adem, Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu, Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01656-7
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author Kebede, Sewnet Adem
Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu
Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno
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description BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a significant public health problem, and human rights abuse, and is associated with multiple adverse physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health effects. The current study aimed to determine the magnitude of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its determinant factors in East African countries. METHODS: We utilized the most recent demographic and health survey data from 11 East African countries, which was comprised of a weighted sample of 55,501 ever-married women. A multilevel multivariable logistic regression analysis was applied. We used an adjusted odds ratio with a 95% CI and a p value ≤ 0.05 in the multilevel logistic model to declare significant factors associated with IPV. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of all forms of IPV in East African countries was 32.66% [95% CI 32.27, 33.05], with the highest IPV occurring in Uganda (14.93%) and the lowest IPV recorded in Comoros (0.87%). In the multivariable multilevel logistic regression model, women’s education, residence, sex of household head, current pregnancy, husband drinking alcohol, attitude towards wife-beating husband controlling behavior, and women’s decision-making autonomy were significantly associated with IPV. CONCLUSION: The risk factors noted above increase the likelihood of a woman experiencing IPV. Therefore, we recommend establishing effective health and legal response services for IPV, raising awareness of the existing legislation service and improving its application, strengthening legislations on purchasing and selling of alcohol, strengthening joint (both husband and wife) decision-making power by empowering women, improving the educational level of women, and establishing measures to break the culture of societal tolerance towards IPV. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-022-01656-7.
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spelling pubmed-89285942022-03-23 Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey Kebede, Sewnet Adem Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno BMC Womens Health Research BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a significant public health problem, and human rights abuse, and is associated with multiple adverse physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health effects. The current study aimed to determine the magnitude of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its determinant factors in East African countries. METHODS: We utilized the most recent demographic and health survey data from 11 East African countries, which was comprised of a weighted sample of 55,501 ever-married women. A multilevel multivariable logistic regression analysis was applied. We used an adjusted odds ratio with a 95% CI and a p value ≤ 0.05 in the multilevel logistic model to declare significant factors associated with IPV. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of all forms of IPV in East African countries was 32.66% [95% CI 32.27, 33.05], with the highest IPV occurring in Uganda (14.93%) and the lowest IPV recorded in Comoros (0.87%). In the multivariable multilevel logistic regression model, women’s education, residence, sex of household head, current pregnancy, husband drinking alcohol, attitude towards wife-beating husband controlling behavior, and women’s decision-making autonomy were significantly associated with IPV. CONCLUSION: The risk factors noted above increase the likelihood of a woman experiencing IPV. Therefore, we recommend establishing effective health and legal response services for IPV, raising awareness of the existing legislation service and improving its application, strengthening legislations on purchasing and selling of alcohol, strengthening joint (both husband and wife) decision-making power by empowering women, improving the educational level of women, and establishing measures to break the culture of societal tolerance towards IPV. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-022-01656-7. BioMed Central 2022-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8928594/ /pubmed/35300675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01656-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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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Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno
Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title_full Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title_fullStr Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title_full_unstemmed Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title_short Magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in East Africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
title_sort magnitude and determinants of intimate partner violence against women in east africa: multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01656-7
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