Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Samara University, Semera, Afar, Ethiopia.
Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Samara University, Semera, Afar, Ethiopia.
PeerJ. 2024 Aug 23;12:e17812. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17812. eCollection 2024.
COVID-19 preventive measures such as stay at home and isolation leads to violence against women. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the common violence during this pandemic. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence among reproductive age women during COVID-19 in Ethiopia.
Electronic databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar and African journals online and studies available from the occurrence of the pandemic to April 2023 were searched. Two researchers collected the data and independently performed the methodological quality assessment. To pool the collected data for each outcome with 95% confidence interval (CI), DerSimonian-Laird random effects meta-analysis was used. Publication bias was measured by Doi plot LFK index and Egger's test. Stata version 14.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA) software was used for statistical analysis.
A total of seven studies reported the prevalence of intimate partner violence among women in reproductive age during COVID-19, and the pooled prevalence of physical intimate partner violence was 22% (95% CI [0.12-0.32], I = 98.9%, tau = 0.0184, < 0.001). The pooled prevalence of psychological intimate partner violence was 28% (95% CI [0.18-0.37], I = 98.1%, tau = 0.0142, < 0.001). The pooled prevalence of sexual intimate partner violence was 23% (95% CI [0.13-0.34], I = 99.1%, tau = 0.0208, < 0.001).
During COVID-19 reproductive age women in Ethiopia were affected by intimate partner violence. Physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence were reported, and their prevalence was high due to the pandemic. Future studies on impact of COVID-19 on IPV among reproductive age women should be conducted in nationwide to make more comprehensive conclusion.
CRD42023417628.
COVID-19 的预防措施,如居家和隔离,导致了针对妇女的暴力行为。亲密伴侣暴力(IPV)是大流行期间常见的暴力形式之一。本研究旨在评估 COVID-19 期间埃塞俄比亚育龄妇女遭受身体、心理和性亲密伴侣暴力的流行率。
电子数据库,如 PubMed、Google Scholar 和非洲期刊在线,以及自大流行开始到 2023 年 4 月可用的研究,都进行了搜索。两位研究人员收集数据并独立进行方法学质量评估。使用 DerSimonian-Laird 随机效应荟萃分析对每个结果进行合并,置信区间(CI)为 95%。Doi 图 LFK 指数和 Egger 检验用于测量发表偏倚。使用 Stata 版本 14.0(StataCorp,德克萨斯州学院站,美国)软件进行统计分析。
共有七项研究报告了 COVID-19 期间育龄妇女中亲密伴侣暴力的流行率,身体亲密伴侣暴力的总流行率为 22%(95%CI[0.12-0.32],I=98.9%,tau=0.0184,<0.001)。心理亲密伴侣暴力的总流行率为 28%(95%CI[0.18-0.37],I=98.1%,tau=0.0142,<0.001)。性亲密伴侣暴力的总流行率为 23%(95%CI[0.13-0.34],I=99.1%,tau=0.0208,<0.001)。
COVID-19 期间,埃塞俄比亚育龄妇女受到亲密伴侣暴力的影响。报告了身体、心理和性亲密伴侣暴力,由于大流行,其流行率很高。应在全国范围内开展关于 COVID-19 对育龄妇女亲密伴侣暴力影响的未来研究,以得出更全面的结论。
PROSPERO 注册号:CRD42023417628。