Amo-Adjei Joshua, Tuoyire Derek Anamaale
a Department of Population and Health , University of Cape Coast , Cape Coast , Ghana.
b School of Medical Sciences , University of Cape Coast , Cape Coast , Ghana.
Women Health. 2016;56(1):48-64. doi: 10.1080/03630242.2015.1074638. Epub 2015 Sep 1.
Violence against intimate partners threatens public health and social cohesion, and its prevalence could increase with an attitude of justification of such violence. The objective of this article was to use religion and ethnicity as proxies for culture to examine Ghanaian women's acceptance of being beaten. We employed descriptive and binary logistic regression statistics applied to Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey data collected in 2011 in Ghana. With a weighted sample of 10,627 women, the findings revealed that more than half (59.83%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 57.41%, 62.2%) of the respondents justified at least one form of intimate partner violence (IPV) or another and being a Mole-Dagbani (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.41; 95%; CI = 1.05, 1.90) and/or in a polygamous marriage/union (AOR = 1.22; 95% CI = 1.04, 1.420) were significant risk factors for justifying IPV. Activism in promoting IPV-free communities has to be group-specific to reach those in need of interventions.
针对亲密伴侣的暴力行为威胁着公众健康和社会凝聚力，而且这种暴力行为的普遍程度可能会随着对其持正当化态度而上升。本文的目的是利用宗教和种族作为文化的替代指标，来研究加纳女性对遭受殴打行为的接受程度。我们运用了描述性统计和二元逻辑回归统计方法，对2011年在加纳收集的多指标类集调查数据进行分析。在10627名加权样本女性中，研究结果显示，超过半数（59.83%，95%置信区间（CI）=57.41%，62.2%）的受访者认为至少有一种形式的亲密伴侣暴力行为（IPV）是合理的，并且属于莫勒-达戈巴尼族（调整后的优势比[AOR]=1.41；95%；CI=1.05，1.90）和/或处于一夫多妻制婚姻/关系中（AOR=1.22；95%CI=1.04，1.420）是认为亲密伴侣暴力行为合理的显著风险因素。在促进无亲密伴侣暴力行为社区方面开展的行动必须针对特定群体，以便惠及那些需要干预的人群。
