Abstract
Domestic violence (DV) is a global public problem that touches all levels of society and socio-economic status. Identifying women's attitudes towards domestic violence is an important first step in the prevention and control of its consequence. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis aimed: (i) to synthesize women's reasons for justifying domestic violence and (ii) to determine the pooled prevalence of women's attitude towards domestic violence in Ethiopia. Pub-Med and google scholar data bases searched for quantitative cross-sectional studies. The study quality was assessed with the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment tool. Heterogeneity test and evidence of publication bias were assessed. Pooled prevalence of women's attitude was calculated with 95%CI using random effects model. A total of 15 articles were included in the study. The pooled prevalence of women's attitude towards justifying domestic violence was found to be 57% (95% CI; 47.0%-67.2%). Reasons for justifying were: burning food, argues with husband, goes out without telling, neglects children, refuses sex, unfaithful, disobeys and suspects infidelity. More than half of women accept domestic violence. Authors' suggest strengthening of women's awareness toward norms that justify wife beating.
Highlights
Background: Domestic violence (DV) is a global public problem that touches all levels of society and socio-economic status
World Health Organization (WHO) multi-country and EDHS assessment tool were utilized for the assessments of majority of the outcome variables (Table: 1)
This implies (i) though the government works on women and girls empowerment, the result of this study revealed the need to work more on women’s attitude towards domestic violence (ii) the influence of cultural beliefs associated with accepting wife beating such as women’ belief in men’s dominance that favored acceptance of violence
Summary
Domestic violence (DV) is a global public problem that touches all levels of society and socio-economic status. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed: (i) to synthesize women’s reasons for justifying domestic violence and (ii) to determine the pooled prevalence of women’s attitude towards domestic violence in Ethiopia. Women’s attitude and reasons toward justifying domestic violence in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Studying the epidemiological evidence of women’s attitude toward domestic violence and reasons for justification, gives vital information for policy makers’ to designing effective programs and address the issu[1]. Acceptance of women’s attitude toward domestic violence is an indicator of the status of women in a specific social and cultural setting, this provide insights into the countries’ stage of social, cultural and behavioral transformation in the evolution towards gender democratic society[1,3,23,24,25]
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