2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00432.x
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Women's exposure to intimate partner violence and child malnutrition: findings from demographic and health surveys in Bangladesh

Abstract: Domestic violence, in particular intimate partner violence (IPV), has been recognized as a leading cause of mortality and morbidity among women of reproductive age. The effects of IPV against women on their children's health, especially their nutritional status has received less attention but needs to be evaluated to understand the comprehensive public health implications of IPV. The aim of current study was to investigate the association between women's exposure to IPV and their children's nutritional status,… Show more

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“…Importantly, however, this research clarifies that maternal vulnerabilities around pregnancy, such as young maternal age at pregnancy and, as noted earlier, low spacing between childbirths are a concern for chronic though not acute malnutrition, likely because these effects are markers for persistent nutritional and health risk, rather than short-term food insecurity or infectious disease. Such findings are consistent with prior research on maternal age at marriage and childbirth (45, 46), as well as research on other indicators of maternal and child vulnerability, such as spousal violence (11), which also was associated with stunting but not wasting (47, 48) as well as maternal malnutrition (49). …”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…Importantly, however, this research clarifies that maternal vulnerabilities around pregnancy, such as young maternal age at pregnancy and, as noted earlier, low spacing between childbirths are a concern for chronic though not acute malnutrition, likely because these effects are markers for persistent nutritional and health risk, rather than short-term food insecurity or infectious disease. Such findings are consistent with prior research on maternal age at marriage and childbirth (45, 46), as well as research on other indicators of maternal and child vulnerability, such as spousal violence (11), which also was associated with stunting but not wasting (47, 48) as well as maternal malnutrition (49). …”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Covariates were designed to adjust for social inequities but were not able to include indicators of health care access for the child over the course of his/her life. Spousal violence, previously documented to be associated with stunting (47, 48) and survival (11), was unable to be included in analyses as these data were not available for all nations of focus. Data were pooled and cannot be assumed to be consistent with individual nations of focus; small cell sizes inhibit comparable nation-level analyses.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are very few studies that have examined the co-occurrence of childhood malnutrition and maltreatment in developing countries. We did however find reports of associations between childhood malnutrition and inter-partner family violence in these settings (Hasselmann & Reichenheim, 2006; Ziaei, Naved, & Ekstrom, 2014). …”
Section: Introductioncontrasting
confidence: 73%
“…Women in South Asia report especially high rates of experiencing lifetime IPV (Devries et al 2013; World Health Organization 2012), with estimates ranging from 53 % to 95 % among married women in Bangladesh (Azziz-Baumgartner et al 2014; Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics 2013; Hasan et al 2014; Ziaei et al 2014). Our study site is rural Bangladesh, so we focus on men’s perpetration of IPV against their wives because in this context, marriage is almost universal, and premarital cohabitation is socially proscribed.…”
Section: Ipv and Child Marriage: Prevalence And Consequencesmentioning
confidence: 99%