Prevalance Of Domestic Violence And Its Predictors Among Pregnant Women In Manna Woreda,Jimma Zone,SouthWast Ethiopia

Abstract

Background: Domestic violence during pregnancy is an attack that puts not just one, but two lives at risk. The overall objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of domestic violence and its predictors among pregnant women in Manna Woreda, Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 662 pregnant women in manna Woreda, Jimma zone south west Ethiopia from march 25, 2011 to April 10, 2011. We used Simple Random sampling method to select the pregnant women included in the study. A structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to collect the quantitative data and Focus Group Discussion and In-depth-interviews were undertaken to capture qualitative data. Date was entered into SPSS for windows version 16.0, edited, cleaned and analyzed.Descriptive statistics (mean or median) were calculated for continuous variables and percent for categorical variables. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify the predictors. We present the results using odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals. The qualitative data were analyzed manually using thematic framework and triangulated with quantitative findings. Results: A total of 611 study subjects participated giving a response rate of 92.29%. The overall prevalence of domestic violence was 68.9%. Prevalence of physical, sexual and psychological violence were, 242(40.6%), 144(24.2%) and 187(31.4%), respectively. Physical violence was associated with alcohol consumption of husbands (Adj. OR =0.65, 95%CI, 0.44,0.95) and husband desires of current pregnancy( Adj. OR= 1.55(1.09,2.20) and sexual violence was associated with educational status of pregnant women( Adj. OR= 3.3, 95%CI, 0.44,0.91) and alcohol consumption of husbands( Adj. OR= 2.8, 95%CI, 0.19,0.43). predictors of psychological violence were husbands desires of current pregnancy (Adj. OR= 4.7, 95%CI, 0.32, 0.72) and alcohol consumption of husband(Adj. OR= 4.8, 95%CI, 0.40, 0.92). Conclusion: prevalence of domestic violence among pregnant women was very high. Educational status, alcohol consumption and desires of pregnancy were the risk factor of domestic violence. Recommendation Health education programs should be directed toward increasing awareness on domestic violence and health workers and other influential health providers should take lead in introducing awareness and behavioural change in the community and further research using a longitudinal design to prove the current hypothesis is necessary.