Intimate Partner Violence Attitudes and Experience Among Women and Men in Uganda
Intimate Partner Violence Attitudes and Experience Among Women and Men in Uganda
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DOI：
10.1177/0886260509340550
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Speizer, Ilene S.
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作者：
Speizer, Ilene S.
本研究探讨了乌干达妇女和男子对亲密伴侣暴力的态度和经验，以告知该地区的亲密伴侣暴力预防方案。2006年5月至10月，作为乌干达人口和健康调查的一部分，收集了15至49岁妇女和15至54岁男子的全国代表性人口数据。调查包括妇女和男子对殴打妻子的态度问题以及关于IPV受害（妇女）和犯罪（男子）的信息。在乌干达，一半以上的男子和近四分之三的妇女对殴打妻子持支持态度。超过一半的已婚妇女报告IPV受害者，40%的已婚男子报告犯罪。报告目睹父亲殴打母亲的妇女和男子更有可能报告IPV受害（男子犯罪）。目睹暴力也与男性对殴打妻子的积极态度有关。IPV预防计划需要解决目睹妻子在母亲和父亲之间殴打对男性随后的态度和行为的重要作用。目睹殴打妻子的妇女也最有可能有支持的态度和IPV的经验，可能表明他们的关系的期望是不同于妇女谁没有目睹暴力。乌干达和撒哈拉以南非洲其他地区需要针对男性和女性的社区预防方案，因为那里的性别规范为IPV提供了理由。
This study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes and experience among women and men in Uganda to inform IPV-prevention programs in the region. Nationally representative population-based data from women aged 15 to 49 and men aged 15 to 54 were collected between May and October 2006 as part of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey. The survey included questions on women's and men's attitudes toward wife beating and information on IPV victimization (women) and perpetration (men). More than half of men and nearly three quarters of women have attitudes supportive of wife beating in Uganda. More than half of married women report IPV victimization, and 40% of married men report perpetration. Women and men who reported witnessing their fathers beating their mothers were more likely to report IPV victimization (perpetration for men). Witnessing violence was also associated with positive attitudes toward wife beating among men. IPV-prevention programs need to address the important role of having witnessed wife beating between the mother and the father on men's subsequent attitudes and behaviors. Women who witnessed wife beating are also the most likely to have supportive attitudes and IPV experience, possibly indicating that their relationship expectations are different than women who did not witness violence. Community-based prevention programs targeting men and women are needed in Uganda and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa where gender norms that justify IPV prevail.