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Prevalence and Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women Living in Informal Settlements in Iringa Tanzania: A Cross Sectional Study

Tanzania Journal of Development Studies

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Title Prevalence and Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women Living in Informal Settlements in Iringa Tanzania: A Cross Sectional Study
 
Creator Mosha, Idda H; MUHAS
Ezekiel, Mangi; MUHAS
Onesmo, Winfrida; MUHAS
Sabasaba, Amon; MUHAS
 
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Description Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an urgent public problem that is neglected inwomen’s health, especially in urban slums in Tanzania and worldwide. This studyseeks to investigate factors associated with IPV in a sample of women aged 15-49years living in urban informal settlements of Iringa municipality, Tanzania. This wasa cross-sectional study that used a survey to collect data from 300 women living ininformal settlements of Iringa. The study findings showed that there is a prevalenceof IPV among women living in informal settlements, and the most abused womenwere young women. Moreover, married women were found to be more abusedcompared to others. Additionally, incomplete primary school education, being abusinessperson, customary marriage: these were associated with IPV incidences inmany times compared to other groups of participants. ‘Threatened to be divorced’was the most experienced sexual abuse among women. ‘Being a civil servant’ wasassociated with being abused emotionally among women. From the study findings,there should be a program promoting awareness of IPV and steps to be taken whenfaced with the situation. Health policy-makers should also plan for possibleinterventions on the prevention of IPV, including the provision of education onimpacts of IPV and measures to be taken in cases of IPV incidences.
 
Publisher UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
 
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Date 2019-09-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/2958
 
Source Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; Vol 17, No 1 (2019): Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; 1-18
25916831
08569922
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/2958/2963
https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/2958/2964
 
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