Abstract
Domestic violence is a global public health problem. It is prevalent in both the developed world and developing countries. The objective of this study is to identify the factors that are associated with domestic violence against women of reproductive age in Rwanda. The data from the 2014/2015 Rwanda demographic and health survey were used. Generalized linear mixed model was used to account for random effects, overdispersion of residual and heterogeneity. The findings of this study revealed that wealth quintiles, education level of the husband or partner, polygamy, alcohol status of husband or partner, size of the family, number of sexual partners including the husband in the last 12 months, the province the victim lived in, the ownership of an asset in the form of a house or land and the societal attitude towards wife-beating, were the determinants of domestic violence in women of reproductive age. The findings of the risk factors in the current study can help the policy makers, public health workers and institutions in charge of gender monitoring in Rwanda to come up with effective strategies to reduce the domestic violence levels directed against women.
Highlights
Domestic violence was defined as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering that is used towards adult or adolescent women by former or current intimate partners, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life’’(World Health Organization, 1997).Domestic violence is a worldwide public health concern
The current study used the survey weights for domestic violence provided by the Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey data set in order to ascertain a national level representation
We examined the value of Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) for each variance structure and the variance component (VC) was found to produce the smallest AIC and it was used in the analysis
Summary
Domestic violence was defined as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering that is used towards adult or adolescent women by former or current intimate partners, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life’’(World Health Organization, 1997).Domestic violence is a worldwide public health concern. It is prevalent in both the developed world and in those regions that are still developing. Acts of physical violence that are directed at women whilst in pregnancy are highly related to both maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity (Pool et al, 2014)
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