Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31;17(1):2397842. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2397842. Epub 2024 Sep 13.
In Tanzania, nearly half of ever-married women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet little knowledge of IPV from the male perspective exists.
To explore the role of essential healthy lifestyle factors, diet, sleep, and exercise, and their potential role in IPV perpetration.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 1,002 young men (ages 18-24), 754 of which were in an intimate relationship in the previous year. The study took place in Mwanza, Tanzania and used multivariable logistic regression models to explore associations between male perpetration of IPV and diet, sleep, and exercise.
Six types of IPV perpetration were investigated separately and the prevalence of controlling behaviours (79.4%), economic abuse (30.6%), emotional abuse (47.3%), physical violence (16.4%), sexual violence (23.3%), and combined physical and/or sexual violence (32.1%) were obtained. Regular exercise demonstrated a protective effect for economic abuse perpetration; the chance of mildly active individuals perpetrating economic abuse was 38% less than their inactive counterparts ( = 0.003). Associations with sleep were varied and did not show a clear directional relationship. Diet, defined as poor food variety, was positively associated with every IPV type except physical violence and was significant in sexual violence perpetration (aOR:1.57, 95%CI:1.21-2.05).
The results from this study indicate that considering healthy lifestyle behaviours - diet, sleep, and exercise - in the design of intervention programmes may be beneficial in reducing IPV perpetration in Tanzania, and that they should be considered alongside previously established evidence-based risk factors.
在坦桑尼亚，近一半已婚妇女曾遭受过某种形式的亲密伴侣暴力（IPV），但男性对 IPV 的了解甚少。
探讨基本健康生活方式因素（饮食、睡眠和锻炼）的作用及其在 IPV 实施中的潜在作用。
对 1002 名 18-24 岁的年轻男性进行了横断面调查，其中 754 名男性在过去一年中处于亲密关系中。该研究在坦桑尼亚姆万扎进行，使用多变量逻辑回归模型探讨了男性实施 IPV 与饮食、睡眠和锻炼之间的关联。
分别调查了六种类型的 IPV 实施情况，并获得了控制行为（79.4%）、经济虐待（30.6%）、情感虐待（47.3%）、身体暴力（16.4%）、性暴力（23.3%）和身体和/或性暴力（32.1%）的流行率。有规律的锻炼对经济虐待的实施具有保护作用；轻度活跃者实施经济虐待的可能性比不活跃者低 38%（ = 0.003）。与睡眠的关联是多样的，没有显示出明显的方向性关系。饮食，定义为食物种类差，与除身体暴力以外的每一种 IPV 类型都呈正相关，并且在性暴力实施中具有显著意义（aOR：1.57，95%CI：1.21-2.05）。
本研究结果表明，在设计干预方案时考虑健康的生活方式行为（饮食、睡眠和锻炼）可能有助于减少坦桑尼亚的 IPV 实施，并且应与以前建立的基于证据的风险因素一起考虑。
