Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and human rights concern in Rwanda. As reviewed from two national surveys, in Rwanda, women’s experience of physical or sexual IPV in their lifetime almost doubled from 34% in the 2005 DHS, to 56% in the 2010 DHS, while globally IPV rates at 30% and in other sub-Saharan African countries, such as Uganda (40%); Zimbabwe (37%) and Kenya (24), placing Rwanda among the countries with the highest rates of IPV against women in the world, in order to inform the design of IPV prevention programs. A secondary analysis of RDHS 2010 was done and descriptive statistics was used to summarize continuous data, and categorical data, bivariate statistics was used to compare two study groups to provide strong evidence of any study group differences, The test for collinearity was done before fitting Multivariate logistic regression model to produce parsimonious (efficient) multivariable models, backward stepwise logistic regression was used to find the final model. Of the 3042 women included in the analysis 56.6% (n=1718) had experienced at least one form of IPV in the last 12 months prior to the survey. Women corresponding to 51.9% (n=1580) reported to have experienced severe form of IPV whereas other women equivalent to 33% (n=1007) reported a less severe form of IPV. Young women whose husband have not attained high school and having multiple sex partners, living in a high density household in rural areas are more likely to face IPV. IPV prevention programs should increase focus development initiatives to improve access to education for girls and boys may also have an important role in violence prevention.
Keywords: Intimate Partner Violence, Simple Logistic Regression, Multiple Logistic Regression.
Title: MODELING FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INTIMATE PARTNERSHIP IN RWANDA
Author: Elysee TUYISHIME, Dr. Joseph K. Mung’atu, Dr. Jairu NDIGA DESIDERIO
International Journal of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-5736 (Online)
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