Partners’ controlling behaviors and intimate partner sexual violence among married women in Uganda

Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo; Kwagala, Betty; Ndugga, Patricia; Kabagenyi, Allen

doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1564-1

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“…Women in Eastern and Western Uganda were also more likely to experience sexual IPV compared to those in Central Uganda. This nding is consistent with other studies by Karamagi, Tumwine [41], Wandera, Kwagala [26] and Annan and Brier [42] where they found that structural factors, like gender inequality, devastating poverty, alcoholism and police corruption, helped sustain IPV. The social acceptance of violence as a tool to resolve con icts in relationships among some Ugandan societies alongside weak implementation of community sanctions against IPV could explain this nding.…”

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Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Gubi

Nansubuga

Wandera

2020

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Background: In Uganda, just like in many sub-Saharan countries, studies on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among married women are limited. The aim of this paper was to determine the correlates of emotional, sexual, physical IPV and any form of IPV among married women in Uganda.Methods: The 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) data was used, and a weighted sample of 6879 married women were selected from the Domestic Violence module. Frequency distributions were used to describe the characteristics of respondents. Chi-square tests were used to establish the association between IPV and the explanatory variables. Binary logistic regressions were used to establish the factors that were associated with IPV among married women in Uganda.Results: More than half (56%) of the married women experienced some form of IPV. Sexual IPV was the least prevalent (23%) and 4 in 10 women (41% and 40%) experienced physical and emotional IPV, respectively. Factors associated with all the different forms of IPV included, age, region, witnessing parental violence, partner’s controlling behaviors, duration of the relationship, and frequency of intoxication of the male partner. Conclusion: IPV among Ugandan married women is far too common. This calls for collective efforts to reduce IPV in Uganda by addressing excessive alcohol consumption, controlling behaviors, and lack of awareness of the issue. Interventions aimed at preventing perpetration and tolerance of violence in the home settings should be promoted.

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Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

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Wandera

2020

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“…Women in Eastern and Western Uganda were also more likely to experience sexual IPV compared to those in Central Uganda. This finding is agreeable to those in studies by Karamagi, Tumwine [40], Wandera, Kwagala [19] and Annan and Brier [41] where structural factors like gender inequality, devastating poverty, alcoholism and corruption in police were reported to sustain IPV. The social acceptance of violence as a tool to resolve conflicts in relationships for some societies in Uganda alongside weak implementation of community sanctions against IPV could explain this finding.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Women whose partners had controlling behaviors were more likely to experience all forms of IPV and similar findings have been reported in Uganda [14,15,19] and WHO multi-country study [13]. The dowry that men pay could help explain this finding since most men and the society generally view such women as a property of their husbands so long as bride price was paid.…”

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“…Also, the social learning theory's argument that perpetration and acceptance of violence are a learned behavior could help explain this finding since men perpetrate violence because they witnessed their fathers' violent actions towards their mothers and women accept violence because they saw their mothers being abused by their fathers. Some of the recent studies in Uganda and other parts of the World have reported a similar trend [19,29,42,43].…”

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“…Consequently, some studies on IPV in Uganda have been done in consonance with Article 33 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda and the Domestic Violence Act 2010 [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Specifically, many of the studies and policies spell out the need for women to gain full and equal dignity of the person of the man through undermining prohibitive laws, cultures and traditions that dent the status of women.…”

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Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women In Union In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Gubi

Nansubuga

Wandera

2019

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Background In Uganda, just like in many sub-Saharan countries, studies on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) are limited. The aim of this paper was to determine the correlates of emotional, sexual, physical and any IPV among women in union in Uganda.Methods The 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) data was used, and a weighted sample of 6879 women who had been in a union were selected from the Domestic Violence module. Frequency distributions were used to obtain the background and other IPV related characteristics of the women while chi-square tests established the relationship between IPV and the explanatory variables. Binary logistic regressions established the factors that were associated with IPV.Results More than half (56%) of the women in union experienced some form of IPV. Sexual IPV was the least prevalent (23%) and 4 in 10 women (41% and 40%) experienced physical and emotional IPV respectively. Factors associated with all the different forms of IPV included, age, region, witnessing parental violence, partner’s controlling behaviors, duration of union, and frequency of being drunk by the partner.Conclusion IPV towards Ugandan women in union was high. This calls for its reduction through collective efforts that target men to address issues like excessive alcohol consumption, controlling behaviors and raising awareness among others. Intervention programs aimed at countering perpetration and tolerance of violence in the home setting should be promoted.

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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence among Postpartum Women Attending Government Primary Health Care Clinics in Malaysia

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important gender-based, social, and public health problem that affects women worldwide, including women who are pregnant or have recently given birth. Studies have shown that violence against women often increases during pregnancy and the postpartum period. This study aims to examine lifetime and past-year prevalence of IPV among postpartum women in Malaysia, and to determine the socio-demographic as well as husband's/partner's behavioral factors associated with IPV exposure. This is a nationwide, cross-sectional and clinic-based study involving a total of 5727 women at 6 to 16 weeks postpartum, who attended randomly selected government health clinics between July to November 2016. Face-to-face interviews were conducted by trained female enumerators based on a pre-validated structured questionnaire, using mobile devices as data collection tools. Chisquared tests and multivariable logistic regressions were used to investigate selected factors associated with IPVexposure. The lifetime and past-year prevalence of any form of IPV among postpartum women were 4.94% (95% CI [3.81,6.39]) and 2.42% (95% CI [1.74,3.35]) respectively, with the highest prevalence being emotional violence, followed by physical and sexual violence. Multivariable analysis showed that husband's/partner's behaviors, such as frequent alcohol use, drug use, fighting habits and controlling behaviour were significantly associated with both lifetime and past-year IPV (all p < 0.001 for past-year IPV). These findings suggest that prevention and intervention strategies for IPV should consider the prevention of substance use and reducing controlling behaviors by husband/partner, as well as raising awareness to build healthy relationships through education.

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Partners’ controlling behaviors and intimate partner sexual violence among married women in Uganda

Cited by 53 publications

References 23 publications

Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Correlates Of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women In Union In Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence among Postpartum Women Attending Government Primary Health Care Clinics in Malaysia

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