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Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant but also a preventable public health problem and human right concern, that affects millions of mothers regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, ethnicity, or educational background. About 39% of post-partum mothers reported to have experienced physical, sexual and psychological violence's in their lives. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine factors influencing level of knowledge and attitude towards Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), among post-partum mothers in Dodoma Municipal.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study done between November 2017 to January 2018, conducted in Dodoma Municipal. 177 post-partum mothers aged 15-49 years participated. The semi-structured questionnaire was used. Data analysis involved with descriptive and differential statistical, to differentiate association between knowledge and attitude level towards IPV among post-partum mothers in Dodoma Municipal.
Results: The results shows that, mothers aged 20-29 years with education was associated with good knowledge (OR=2.190,p=0.0041) than age o 30-45 years, and about attitude those with secondary education and above(OR=1.836,p=0.0365) was associated with negative attitude toward IPV. Age15 to 19 years was associated with psychological IPV 128(71.7%), while age 20-29 was associated with experienced physical IPV 102(74.7%) , age 30-39 was associated with sexual IPV 101 (56.7%), compared to mothers with age 40-45.
Conclusion: The study showed that, with increasing age and education was associated with better knowledge and less accepting attitude towards IPV. Residency, economic status, household decision, access of media was associated with different education level on IPV. |
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