Citation

Girmay A, Mariye T, Bahrey D, Hailu B, Iyasu A, G/Medhin G, Demisse B, Teklay G. BMC Res. Notes 2019; 12(1): e627.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Specialty, School of Nursing, College of Health Science and Comprehensive Referral Hospital, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/s13104-019-4615-3

PMID

31551075

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: As reports indicated about 1 in 3 of women worldwide have experienced physical violence but there is no enough reports on the current status of the act in Aksum town so this study intended to identify the prevalence and factors associated with physical violence of reproductive age married women in Aksum town Tigray Ethiopia.

RESULT: A total of 398 women were enrolled in the study and making a response rate of 100%. 112 (28.1%) women had physical violence in their lifetime. Educational level of women (AOR = 2.2; 95% CI 1.28, 6.7), Occupation of women's (AOR = 3.8; 95% CI 2.32, 12.8), age of husband (AOR = 5.2; 95% CI 2.3, 11.5), husbands having other wife (AOR = 7.8; 95% CI 4.2, 18.9) and husbands having alcohol habits (AOR = 3.8; 95% CI 1.74, 14.7) had significant association with physical violence.

Language: en

Keywords

Aksum town; Ethiopia; Married Women; Physical violence