Intimate Partner Violence and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
| Autor: | Heather F. McClintock, Samantha L. Dulak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health Epidemiology Public health education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Poison control social sciences Logistic regression Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Domestic violence 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science Psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 23:191-198 |
| ISSN: | 1557-1920 1557-1912 |
| Popis: | Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue that increases risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Data was obtained from women (n = 32,409) who completed the Demographic Health Survey's (DHS) domestic violence module in 7 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2011 and 2015. DHS questions assessed lifetime physical, emotional and sexual IPV, cumulative exposure to IPV as well as the presence of a STI in the past 12 months. Multivariate logistic regression examined the association between IPV and STIs adjusting for potentially influential covariates. Data were weighted and analyzed using STATA Software (version 14.0). Women who had experienced physical, emotional sexual and cumulative IPV were significantly more likely to have had a STIs in the past 12 months. In order to reduce the burden of STIs, initiatives may need to address underlying mechanisms such as gender norms and power inequalities which perpetuate IPV. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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