Abstract
Violence against women, is directly stated as gender-centered violence, these days commonly known as a serious human rights abuse, and gradually also as a significant public health problem that concerns of all services providing of society. <i>Objective:</i> The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and Associated factors of sexual and physical violence among female technical school students in Dilla, South Nation Nationalities Peoples Region, Ethiopia in 2018. <i>Methods:</i> A cross sectional study was carried out an institution based survey using self-administered anonymous questionnaire among randomly selected 167 female students. Both binary and multivariate logistic regression were used to identify associated between dependent and independents variables at p-value less than 0.05 with 95% confidence intervals. <i>Result: </i>From study participants those who had not sexual partner (Adjusted Odd Ratio) AOR = 3.61, 95%CI: 1.8-14.7), having parents not living together (AOR = 1.93, 95%CI: 1.54-3.26) and age group between 18-22 years (AOR=2.62, 95%CI: 1.05-6.81) were significantly associated with physically violated whereas no family support (AOR = 2.75, 95%CI: 1.67-5.34) and no married (AOR= 3.32, 95%CI: 1.21-9.13) were significantly associated with sexually violated in this academic year. <i>Conclusion:</i> The findings of this study showed that sexual and physical violence are serious and prevailing problems among study subjects of Technical school. It is recommended that sexual and physical violence deserve need remedial action from policy makers, schools, parents, students and other concerning stakeholders are working on social works.
Highlights
Till today, most governments and policy-makers imaged that violence against women kept as trend culture of society and restricted to protect a number of women against of the problems
A total of 167 female technical school students were involved in the study which was 100% response rate
The finding of prevalence of experiencing physical violence in the current academic year was lower than previous domestic violence studies done in Butajira of 49% [7]
Summary
Most governments and policy-makers imaged that violence against women kept as trend culture of society and restricted to protect a number of women against of the problems. The social welfare and justice systems were try to talked outlook of the cases of violence in the early. The collective efforts of grass- roots and international women’s officialdoms, intercontinental professionals, and devoted administrations have occasioned in a philosophical revolution in public awareness concerning this subject [1]. Violence against women, is directly stated as gendercentered violence, these days commonly known as a serious human rights abuse, and gradually as a significant public health problem that concerns of all services providing of society [2, 3]. Any action of gender-based violence that consequences in, physical, sexual or psychological were violence against women. Its outcomes suffering to women, comprising threats of coercion or arbitrary scarcities of freedom, whether taking place in public or private life [4]
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