Intimate Partner Violence and Unintended Pregnancy Among Bangladeshi Women

Rahman, Mosiur; Sasagawa, Toshiyuki; Fujii, Ryota; Tomizawa, H.; Makinoda, S.

doi:10.1177/0886260512441072

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“…Results from this study are consistent with other studies that have reported an association between partner violence and unintended pregnancy (Han and Stewart 2014;Pallitto et al 2013;Rahman et al 2012;Stephenson et al 2008). A recent study that analyzed multi-country data from the World Health Organization reported that women with a history of IPV had significantly higher odds of unintended pregnancy and induced abortion, even after controlling for socioeconomic and demographic factors (Pallitto et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…However, the conceptual model did not directly include the role of partners or partner support in decision-making, especially among racial and ethnic minority women. While previous studies have assessed the relationship between IPV and unintended pregnancy, few have focused on Hispanic/Latina and Asian women (Cripe et al 2008;Rahman et al 2012;Raj and McDougal 2015;Stephenson et al 2008;Stockman, Hayashi, and Campbell 2015) with inconsistent results (Martin and Garcia 2011;Martin-de-Las-Heras et al 2015). Further, to the authors' knowledge, no previously published studies have used structural equation modeling (SEM) to assess IPV, unintended pregnancy, and partner factors using a nationally representative dataset.…”

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Partner violence victimization and unintended pregnancy in Latina and Asian American women: Analysis using structural equation modeling

2016

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health problem in the U.S., affecting nearly one in every three women over their lifetimes. Using structural equation modeling, we evaluated the association between IPV and unintended pregnancy, mediated by condom use and perceived spousal/partner support among Latina and Asian women. Data came from the 2002-2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). The analysis was restricted to married or cohabiting female respondents aged 18+ years (n = 1,595). Dependent variables included unintended pregnancy, condom use, and perceived partner support. Independent variables included physical abuse or threats by current partner and primary decision-maker. Weighted least squares was used to fit path models to data comprising dichotomous and ordinal variables. More than 13% of women reported IPV during their relationship with their partner/spouse. Abused women were twice as likely as non-abused women to have had an unintended pregnancy. This association was partially mediated by perceived partner support. Condom use had a positive, but non-significant association with unintended pregnancy, and IPV had a negative, but non-significant association with condom use. Results highlight the importance of IPV screening for minority women. Efforts to combine family planning and violence prevention services may help reduce unintended pregnancy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Partner violence victimization and unintended pregnancy in Latina and Asian American women: Analysis using structural equation modeling

2016

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“…Conversely, socioeconomic status was not found to be associated with unplanned pregnancy in a UK study, where contraception is available for free [56]. Intimate partner violence may be causally associated with unplanned pregnancy due to an increased risk of sexual coercion, and sabotage of contraception [152,153]. Substance use before pregnancy may be causally associated with unplanned pregnancy, as it increases the likelihood of not using contraception [148,154].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Other factors associated with an increased risk of unplanned pregnancy include low SES, single marital status, exposure to intimate partner violence, smoking, illicit drug use and younger maternal age, while religion is associated with a decreased risk [53,54,56,134,135,152]. Some of these factors may be causal and others may be risk markers for unplanned pregnancy due to their association with other causal factors.…”

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The causal web of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review and causal diagram

McQuire

Daniel

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Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a leading cause of developmental disability. Prenatal alcohol use is the sole necessary cause of FASD, but it is not always sufficient. Multiple factors influence a child's susceptibility to FASD following prenatal alcohol exposure. Much of the FASD risk factor literature has been limited to discussions of association, rather than causation. While knowledge of predictor variables is important for identifying who is most at risk of FASD and for targeting interventions, causal knowledge is important for identifying effective mechanisms for prevention and intervention programmes. We conducted a systematic search and narrative synthesis of the evidence and used this to create a causal diagram (directed acyclic graph; DAG) to describe the causal pathways to FASD. Our results show that the aetiology of FASD is multifaceted and complex. FASD risk is determined by a range of lifestyle, sociodemographic, maternal, social, gestational, and genetic factors. The causal diagram that we present in this review provides a comprehensive summary of causal risk factors for FASD and can be used as a tool to inform data collection and statistical modelling strategies to minimise bias in future studies of FASD.

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“…Haddadet al [33] conducted a study in Jordan and found that 39% of the participating women reported emotional abuse, while 30% reported physical abuse and 6% reported sexual abuse. Three studies conducted in Bangladesh identified that Muslim women were more likely to experience all forms of IPV than their non-Muslim counterparts [34][35][36]. However, a fourth study by Dalalet al [37] found the same differences between Muslim and non-Muslim women in all forms of abuse except for physical abuse.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence in Muslim Communities

Nedegaard¹

2014

Arts Social Sci J

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IntroducitonIntimate Partner violence (IPV) against women is a problem that unfortunately plagues all societies. The World Health Organization [1] survey estimates that as many as 69% of women in the world can be impacted by IPV. It can have significant psychological, physical, social, economic, and spiritual implications that can negatively affect future generations, social relationships, and productive capacity [2,3]. Many factors intersect with situations of partner violence to either enhance survivor resilience or to further complicate IPV situations [4,5].Religion is one of the factors that play an especially important role when it comes to situations of IPV. When studying IPV it is important understand the interplay between IPV and the multiple dimensional roles religion plays while intersecting with other dimensions of culture. No religion condones IPV and this behavior disrespects religious teachings that promote and peace and harmony. Yet many IPV perpetrators use religion as another weapon of abuse. As Marie Fortune [6], one of the pioneering faith leaders acting against domestic violence said: …abusers …misuse and distort scripture to justify their choice to harm another person because they have power over that person. It is very easy to misuse and distort sacred texts. All you have to do is to lift something out of context with no understanding or appreciation of its history and meaning and use it to justify your personal beliefs. When you combine that with a blatant disregard for the fundamental teaching of the faith tradition, you end up with a perverse, dangerous distortion which can fuel hatred and violence in direct contradiction to the teaching of the faith".Muslims, a religiously, culturally, nationally and socioeconomically diverse faith-based populace, bear no exception in escaping this dilemma [7][8][9]. Many abusers use religion and culture as an excuse to justify their actions despite obvious evidence opposing this behavior.Yet, like in many faith communities, it is only in the recent past receiving attention as a major concern in North America and globally. Some scholars suggest that the global Muslim community is in the early stages of considering IPV as a social problem of criminal nature [10][11][12]. This is also evident in the fact that no empirical articles written in English were found on this issue prior to the 1990s. Like many faith communities, the subject of IPV in Muslims communities generally tends to remain a taboo; there is either general reluctance or denial that IPV exists [10,13,14]. It may remain a topic hidden within many families and, once again, this guarded nature is reflected in the limited availability of research on this issue within the professional literature [8,15]. However, the works of a few activists, academics and grassroots level agencies have helped shed light on the gravity of this global issue in more recent times [8,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. These advocates, as part of an emerging movement, are revealing that IPV is a major problem afflicting Mus...

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Intimate Partner Violence and Unintended Pregnancy Among Bangladeshi Women

Cited by 44 publications

References 37 publications

Partner violence victimization and unintended pregnancy in Latina and Asian American women: Analysis using structural equation modeling

Partner violence victimization and unintended pregnancy in Latina and Asian American women: Analysis using structural equation modeling

The causal web of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review and causal diagram

Intimate Partner Violence in Muslim Communities

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