Oyediran Kola', Spencer Chelsea M, Stith Sandra M
John Snow, Inc., Arlington, VA, USA.
International Health and Data Analysis Center, Abuja, Nigeria.
J Interpers Violence. 2023 Mar;38(5-6):5211-5235. doi: 10.1177/08862605221120883. Epub 2022 Aug 26.
There is a lack of research on how global intimate partner violence (IPV) has impacted men, especially in patriarchal societies of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study used data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Cameroon and Sierra Leone after 2010 to examine the prevalence and predictors of IPV victimization among married or cohabiting men aged 15 to 59 years. We chose to examine factors related to IPV victimization separately in each country to highlight the importance of not generalizing results from one SSA country to another or to SSA as a whole. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine factors associated with physical, psychological, and sexual IPV victimization. In Cameroon, 26.5% of men reported psychological victimization, 24.4% reported physical victimization, and 2.3% reported sexual victimization in the year before the survey. The corresponding proportions of male victims in Sierra Leone were 23.4%, 14.9%, and 2.7% respectively. Men in both countries experienced more psychological violence than physical or sexual violence. The prevalence of IPV varied by age, education, ethnicity, witnessed father beating his mother, wife's alcohol consumption, and approval of wife-beating. In both countries, reporting IPV victimization was related to exposure to father beating mother, alcohol consumption, ethnicity, and approval of wife-beating. Implications of these findings suggest that it is important to consider the influence of contextual and structural factors in understanding the vulnerability of men to IPV victimization. The inconsistent patterns and socio-cultural variation within countries suggest that a multilayer approach should be used to prevent and respond to IPV against men.
关于全球亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）如何影响男性，尤其是撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）父权制社会中的男性，目前缺乏相关研究。本研究使用了2010年后在喀麦隆和塞拉利昂进行的人口与健康调查（DHS）数据，以调查15至59岁已婚或同居男性中IPV受害情况的患病率及预测因素。我们选择在每个国家分别研究与IPV受害相关的因素，以突出不将一个SSA国家的结果推广到另一个国家或整个SSA的重要性。采用逻辑回归分析来研究与身体、心理和性IPV受害相关的因素。在喀麦隆，26.5%的男性报告在调查前一年遭受过心理暴力，24.4%报告遭受过身体暴力，2.3%报告遭受过性暴力。在塞拉利昂，男性受害者的相应比例分别为23.4%、14.9%和2.7%。两国的男性遭受心理暴力的情况都多于身体或性暴力。IPV的患病率因年龄、教育程度、种族、目睹父亲殴打母亲、妻子饮酒以及对殴打妻子的认可程度而异。在两国，报告IPV受害情况都与接触到父亲殴打母亲、饮酒、种族以及对殴打妻子的认可程度有关。这些研究结果表明，在理解男性遭受IPV受害的易感性时，考虑背景和结构因素的影响很重要。各国之间不一致的模式和社会文化差异表明，应采用多层次方法来预防和应对针对男性 的IPV。
