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Association Between Girl-child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights From a Multicountry Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys
Journal of Interpersonal Violence ( IF 2.621 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 , DOI: 10.1177/08862605211005139
Bright Opoku Ahinkorah 1 , Olayinka Modupe Onayemi 2 , Abdul-Aziz Seidu 3, 4 , Oluwafemi Emmanuel Awopegba 5 , Anthony Idowu Ajayi 6
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While considerable attention has been given to the health consequences of child marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), limited studies exist on its impact on intimate partner violence (IPV) in the region. We address this gap by examining the link between child marriage and IPV. We tested our study hypothesis using demographic and health survey data of 28,206 young women aged 20-24 years from 16 SSA countries with recent surveys (2015-2019). Binary logistic regression models were used to examine the effect of child marriage on IPV. Child marriage prevalence ranged from 13.5% in Rwanda, in East Africa, to 77% in Chad, in Central Africa, while IPV ranged from 17.5% in Mozambique in Southern Africa to 42% in Uganda, in East Africa. Past year experience of IPV was higher among young women who married or begun cohabiting before the age of 18 (36.9%) than those who did at age 18 or more (32.5%). This result was consistent for all forms of violence: physical violence (22.7% vs 19.7%), emotional violence (25.3% vs 21.9%), and sexual violence (12% vs 10.4%). After controlling for covariates, we found that young women in SSA who married before 18 years were more likely to experience IPV than those who married as adults (AOR: 1.20; 95% CI [1.12, 1.29]). Significant heterogeneity was observed in the country-level results, with a higher likelihood of IPV found in 14 of the 16 countries and lower in Angola and Chad. Child marriage is associated with a higher likelihood of IPV in most SSA countries, suggesting that ending child marriage will result in a substantial reduction in IPV. There is a need to institute policies to support and protect women who marry as children from abusive relationships in SSA.



中文翻译:

撒哈拉以南非洲女童婚姻与亲密伴侣暴力之间的关联:来自多国人口和健康调查分析的见解

虽然对撒哈拉以南非洲 (SSA) 童婚的健康后果给予了相当多的关注,但对其对该地区亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 的影响的研究有限。我们通过研究童婚与 IPV 之间的联系来解决这一差距。我们使用来自 16 个 SSA 国家(2015-2019 年)的 28,206 名 20-24 岁年轻女性的人口统计和健康调查数据检验了我们的研究假设。使用二元逻辑回归模型来检验童婚对 IPV 的影响。童婚流行率从东非卢旺达的 13.5% 到中非乍得的 77%,而 IPV 从南部非洲莫桑比克的 17.5% 到东非乌干达的 42% 不等。在 18 岁之前结婚或开始同居的年轻女性(36. 9%) 比 18 岁或以上的人 (32.5%)。这一结果对于所有形式的暴力都是一致的:身体暴力(22.7% vs 19.7%)、情感暴力(25.3% vs 21.9%)和性暴力(12% vs 10.4%)。在控制协变量后,我们发现在 18 岁之前结婚的 SSA 中的年轻女性比成年结婚的女性更有可能经历 IPV(AOR:1.20;95% CI [1.12, 1.29])。在国家层面的结果中观察到显着的异质性,在 16 个国家中的 14 个国家发现 IPV 的可能性较高,而在安哥拉和乍得则较低。在大多数 SSA 国家,童婚与更高的 IPV 可能性有关,这表明结束童婚将导致 IPV 的大幅减少。

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