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Disability status and violence against women in the home in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Source :
- Global Public Health; Jul2020, Vol. 15 Issue 7, p985-998, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Few studies have investigated how women's disability status may influence violence against women within conflict settings. A mixed-methods analysis of formative qualitative research and cross-sectional baseline pilot data from a violence prevention program in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was used to examine violence against disabled adult women within the home. Logistic regression models were constructed to examine the relationship between past-month physical/sexual intimate partner violence, disability status, and older age (N = 98 women). Deductive thematic analysis of focus groups and individual interviews (N = 57 men, 59 women) was used to identify community norms and perceptions of violence against women with disabilities in the home. Women who reported mild disability reported higher experiences of past-month physical and/or sexual IPV (85.0%) compared to those who reported severe or no disability (76.5% vs. 70.8%, respectively). Older women with mild disability were more likely to report physical IPV compared to their younger counterparts as well (OR = 1.23, 95%CI: 1.01, 1.49, p < 0.039). Qualitative findings suggested family members may be deterred from perpetrating abuse against older women. These findings highlight a complex relationship between women's disability status and violence perpetration, underscoring the importance of having inclusive, contextual violence against women prevention and response programming in conflict settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RISK of violence
AGE distribution
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CONFIDENCE intervals
CONFLICT (Psychology)
STATISTICAL correlation
FOCUS groups
INTERVIEWING
LIFE skills
RESEARCH methodology
CASE studies
PEOPLE with disabilities
QUESTIONNAIRES
SOCIAL norms
T-test (Statistics)
VIOLENCE & psychology
QUALITATIVE research
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DISABILITIES
HOME environment
THEMATIC analysis
INTIMATE partner violence
DATA analysis software
STATISTICAL models
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17441692
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144526990
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1741661