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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
Spousal concordance in attitudes toward violence and reported physical abuse in african couples
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Volume 26, No. 14, Year 2011
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Purpose: We examined the potential association between African couples' concordance on attitudes toward violence (ATV) and risk for intimate partner violence (IPV). Method: Analyses included 13,837 couples from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2003 and 2007, from six African countries. Concordance on ATV was defined as both spouses justifying physical abuse, and IPV was defined as incidence of a physically violent act against the wife. We constructed a concordance measure from the surveys to assess overall and country-level differences in couple's ATV concordance rates and assessed the association between concordance in ATV and IPV using hierarchical regression modeling that adjusted for multilevel influences on risk estimates. Negative concordance (perfect agreement in negative ATV) was used as referent category in all analyses. Findings: Overall, spousal ATV concordance was associated with higher likelihood for IPV (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.27, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [2.01, 2.56]). The level of wealth, educational attainment, rural/urban residence, presence of a cowife, religion, maternal age, and parity were characteristics that predicted the occurrence of IPV within couples. Spousal ATV concordance was significantly associated with violence in every African nation included in the analysis except Rwanda. Conclusions: African couples with high rates of ATV concor- dance experience higher risks for IPV, with some variation in magnitude of risk across countries. In African settings, ATV positive concordance could serve as a supplemental screening tool to detect spousal violence. Understanding ATV could potentially enhance our ability to formulate public health intervention to detect and prevent spousal abuse. © The Author(s) 2011.
Authors & Co-Authors
Alio, P. A.
United States, Tampa
University of South Florida, Tampa
Clayton, Heather B.
United States, Tampa
University of South Florida, Tampa
Garba, Madeleine
Niger
Abdou Moumouni University
Mbah, Alfred K.
United States, Tampa
University of South Florida, Tampa
Daley, Ellen M.
United States, Tampa
University of South Florida, Tampa
Salihu, Hamisu Mohammed
United States, Tampa
University of South Florida, Tampa
Statistics
Citations: 6
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1177/0886260510390951
ISSN:
08862605
e-ISSN:
15526518
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Violence And Injury
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Case-Control Study
Study Locations
Rwanda