Research thesis submitted to health education & Behavioral sciences department, public health and Medical sciences college, school of graduate Studies, jimma university for the partial Fulfilment of the requirements in master of public Health in health education and promotion (mph in

Abstract

Background Sexual coercion is the act of forcing or attempt of force on another individual through violence, threat, verbal insist, deception cultural expectation and economic benefit and other related tactics to engage in to unwanted sexual intercourse against the will of the other. When young women get to college, nearly 20% of them wasvictims of attempted or actual sexual coercion which include from forced unwanted kissing abs to violence sexual intercourse. The magnitude and cause behind the problem mostly unclear, and the predictor were not separately identified and studied well in our country. Objectives: The objective of this study was assessing sexual coercions and influencing Factors. Methods Cross sectional study design was employed using both quantitative and qualitative approaches and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select the sampled population. A self-administered questionnaire and in-depth interview guide were used for predicting experiences of sexual coercions and asses the prevalence’s of the problem among 386 study participants. After adjusting all variable multi variant logistic regression was performed to see the possible association on variables. Result: Sexual coercion measured by one of the three forms of coercion. i.e., the prevalence of verbal coercion, attempted rape and performed rape were found to be , 61.1%, 21.2% and 7.5% respectively. The major predictors of sexual coercion:( for verbal coercion;, peer influences. Rape myth attitude and child hood trauma with, (AOR= 1.09, 95%CI: 1.02, 1.17), (AOR = 0.92, 95%CI: 0.87, 0.96), and (AOR=1.75.95%CI: 1.07, 2.89), respectively showed a significance associations at P>0.05. For Attempted rape: the predictors were; alcohol use habbite, label of self esteem and family income were identified with (AOR=1.95. 95 %CI: 1.114, 3.41), AOR=0.93, 95%CI (0.88, 0.98) and AOR=2.58, 95%CI (1.16, 5.72) respectively identified as a predictors. for the experience of complete rape also the major predictors were; self esteem, alcohol use, child hood trauma and communication skill were identified with following respective odd ratio at 95%C.I. with odd ration of , 0.89, 3.51, 3.46 and 0.89 identified as a predictors of performed rape. Conclusion and Recommendation: The finding of this research shows the experiences of all form of sexual coercion experiences including verbal coercion; attempted rape and rape were higher in higher institution. The predictors also operate at several levels, so higher institution official, government, societies should work hand in hand to tackle this problem and helps females to be communicative and fruit full citizen for our country