Abstract
BackgroundViolence against women is one of the major public health problems in both developed and developing worlds. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of current (occurred in one year preceding the survey) domestic violence and socio-demographic factors associated with domestic violence against women.MethodsThis was a cross sectional household survey (face to face interview) conducted in Kassala, eastern Sudan, from 1st March to 1st June 2014. Multivariable analyses were performed, Confidence intervals of 95% were calculated and P < 0.05 was considered significant.ResultsOf the 1009 women, 33.5% (338) reported current experience of physical violence and, of these 338 women, 179 (53%) and 159 (47%) reported moderate and severe form of physical violence respectively. The prevalence of sexual coercion, psychological violence and verbal insult was 17% (172\\1009), 30.1% (304\\1009) and 47.6% (480\\1009) respectively. In the majority of cases, violence was experienced as repeated acts, ie, more than three times per year. For verbal insult 20.1% (203\\480) and 27.5% (277\\480) reported yelling and shouting respectively. Again 251 (24.9%) and 270 (26.8%) women reported that they experience divorce threat and second marriage threat respectively. In logistic regression model, husband’s education (OR = 1.5; CI = 1.0-2.1; P = 0.015), polygamous marriage (OR = 1.9; CI = 1.3-2.9; P = 0.000), and husband’s alcohol consumption (OR = 13.9; CI = 7.9-25.4; P <0.000) were significantly associated with domestic violence.ConclusionsDomestic violence was found to be highly prevalent in eastern Sudan and strongly associated with the educational status, polygamous marriage and husband’s alcohol consumption. We recommend more research to include men.
Highlights
Violence against women is one of the major public health problems in both developed and developing worlds
Domestic violence is against the religious perception and the Islamic teaching discourages the violence against women
To our knowledge no available data on domestic violence against women in Sudan exists, the current study designed and directed to investigate the prevalence rate and sociodemographic factors associated with domestic violence against women in Eastern Sudan aiming to provide the policy makers with fundamental data to reduce the prevalence rate of this practice
Summary
Violence against women is one of the major public health problems in both developed and developing worlds. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of current (occurred in one year preceding the survey) domestic violence and socio-demographic factors associated with domestic violence against women. There is limited data on the prevalence of the domestic violence against women in the sub-Saharan and African countries [6]; there are a recognized correlation between the domestic violence and various reproductive health problems such as non use of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases [7]. To our knowledge no available data on domestic violence against women in Sudan exists, the current study designed and directed to investigate the prevalence rate and sociodemographic factors associated with domestic violence against women in Eastern Sudan aiming to provide the policy makers with fundamental data to reduce the prevalence rate of this practice
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