Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to investigate factors contributing to intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at the health facilities in West Pokot Sub-County. The study was done in West Pokot Sub-County. METHODS: using cross sectional study design, a total o...
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| author | Isaac Ogweno Owaka Margaret Keraka Nyanchoka Harryson Etemesi Atieli |
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| description | INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to investigate factors contributing to intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at the health facilities in West Pokot Sub-County. The study was done in West Pokot Sub-County. METHODS: using cross sectional study design, a total of 238 antenatal attendees were systematically sampled for the study. Four focused group discussions and 20 key informant interviews were conducted for qualitative data collection. Qualitative data was consolidated into various themes while bivariate and logistic regression analysis was done to determine factors associated with experience of IPV in the index of pregnancy with P = 0.05 being considered significant. RESULTS: the study found prevalence of overall, physical, psychological and sexual IPV in pregnancy to be 66.9%, 29.9%, 55.8% and 39.2% respectively. After adjusting for confounders, Overall IPV in pregnancy was significantly associated with Alcohol intake by partner (OR 2.116, 95% CI 1.950-2.260, P 0.000) and partner's level of education (OR 1.265, 95% CI 1.079-1.487, P 0.031), while psychological and sexual IPV was significantly associated with age of partner (OR 2.292, 95% CI 2.123-2.722, P 0.007) and age of pregnant women (OR 1.174, 95% CI 1.001-1.397 P 0.049) respectively. The care offered to antenatal attendees experiencing IPV was not in line with WHO guidelines and standard on handling gender based violence cases. CONCLUSION: the study finding indicates that IPV in pregnancy among antenatal attendees in West Pokot is very high. This unearths the gaps on gender based violence interventions in the maternal and child health programs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fcafad6ebbd94d35b32674f3c54601d52022-12-21T19:23:26ZengThe Pan African Medical JournalThe Pan African Medical Journal1937-86881937-86882017-11-012822910.11604/pamj.2017.28.229.88408840Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, KenyaIsaac Ogweno Owaka0Margaret Keraka Nyanchoka1Harryson Etemesi Atieli2 Masters of Public Health (Reproductive Health Program), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya Chairperson Department of Environmental and Population Health, School of Public Health, Kenyatta University, and Nairobi, Kenya Senior Lecture, Department of Public Health, Maseno University, Kenya INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to investigate factors contributing to intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at the health facilities in West Pokot Sub-County. The study was done in West Pokot Sub-County. METHODS: using cross sectional study design, a total of 238 antenatal attendees were systematically sampled for the study. Four focused group discussions and 20 key informant interviews were conducted for qualitative data collection. Qualitative data was consolidated into various themes while bivariate and logistic regression analysis was done to determine factors associated with experience of IPV in the index of pregnancy with P = 0.05 being considered significant. RESULTS: the study found prevalence of overall, physical, psychological and sexual IPV in pregnancy to be 66.9%, 29.9%, 55.8% and 39.2% respectively. After adjusting for confounders, Overall IPV in pregnancy was significantly associated with Alcohol intake by partner (OR 2.116, 95% CI 1.950-2.260, P 0.000) and partner's level of education (OR 1.265, 95% CI 1.079-1.487, P 0.031), while psychological and sexual IPV was significantly associated with age of partner (OR 2.292, 95% CI 2.123-2.722, P 0.007) and age of pregnant women (OR 1.174, 95% CI 1.001-1.397 P 0.049) respectively. The care offered to antenatal attendees experiencing IPV was not in line with WHO guidelines and standard on handling gender based violence cases. CONCLUSION: the study finding indicates that IPV in pregnancy among antenatal attendees in West Pokot is very high. This unearths the gaps on gender based violence interventions in the maternal and child health programs. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/28/229/pdf/229.pdf intimate partner violencepregnancyprevalence |
| spellingShingle | Isaac Ogweno Owaka Margaret Keraka Nyanchoka Harryson Etemesi Atieli Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya The Pan African Medical Journal intimate partner violence pregnancy prevalence |
| title | Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya |
| title_full | Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya |
| title_short | Intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in West Pokot county, Kenya |
| title_sort | intimate partner violence in pregnancy among antenatal attendees at health facilities in west pokot county kenya |
| topic | intimate partner violence pregnancy prevalence |
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