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Intimate partner violence victimization increases the risk of under-five morbidity: a stratified multilevel analysis of pooled Tanzania demographic health surveys, 2010-2016

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dc.creator Bintabara, Deogratius
dc.creator Kibusi, Stephen M.
dc.date 2021-05-13T07:41:38Z
dc.date 2021-05-13T07:41:38Z
dc.date 2018
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T14:01:40Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T14:01:40Z
dc.identifier Bintabara, D., & Kibusi, S. M. (2018). Intimate partner violence victimization increases the risk of under-five morbidity: A stratified multilevel analysis of pooled Tanzania demographic health surveys, 2010-2016. PLoS One, 13(8),14.
dc.identifier DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201814
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3066
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3066
dc.description Full text article. Also available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201814
dc.description A hidden determinant such as intimate partner violence victimization has been associated with under-five morbidity and mortality. However, there is lack of information regarding which exactly age group of under-five is more vulnerable to morbidity when their mothers exposed to intimate partner violence victimization. This study aimed to determine the effect of mothers’ exposure to intimate partner violence victimization on age groups specific under-five morbidity that could lead to mortality. The current study pooled and analyzed data from 2010 and 2016 Tanzania Demographic Health Survey datasets. We used a stratified multilevel modeling to assess the association between under-five morbidity and intimate partner violence victimization according to age groups. The Statistical approach using Stata 14 was used to adjust for clustering effect and weighted the estimates to correct for non-responses and disproportionate sampling employed during designing of the surveys. A total of 13,639 singleton live-births babies within three years prior to interview dates from the ever-married women were included in the analysis. We found a significant reduction of the three main symptoms of under-five morbidity namely; a cough with difficult or fast breathing from 21.7 to 15.7%, fever from 22.5 to 18.3%, and diarrhoea from 15.5 to 12.7% for the survey years from 2010 to 2016 respectively (P<0.05). Overall, about 40% of mothers reported experiencing any forms of intimate partner violence victimization. After adjusting for individual and cluster variables, we found that under-five in post-neonatal period (Adjusted odds ratios = 1.50; 95%CI, 1.21–1.86) and childhood period (Adjusted odds ratios = 1.40; 95%CI, 1.24–1.57) were significantly affected with morbidity when their mothers exposed to any form of intimate partner violence victimization. This analysis revealed that intimate partner violence victimization is still a major and public health problem in Tanzania that threatens child health during the period of post-neonatal and childhood. There is a need to introduce screening for intimate partner violence victimization in maternal and child care for effective monitoring and prevention of the problem.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
dc.subject Intimate partner violence victimization
dc.subject Intimate partner violence
dc.subject Morbidity
dc.subject Mortality rate
dc.subject Post-neonatal
dc.subject Child care
dc.subject Violence
dc.subject Victimization
dc.subject Health problems
dc.title Intimate partner violence victimization increases the risk of under-five morbidity: a stratified multilevel analysis of pooled Tanzania demographic health surveys, 2010-2016
dc.type Article


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