Who seeks care after intimate partner violence in Cameroon? sociodemographic differences between a hospital and population sample of women.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little is known regarding health care seeking behaviors of women in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Cameroon, who experience violence. The proportion of women who experienced violence enrolled in the Cameroon Trauma Registry (CTR) is lower than expected.

Methods

We concatenated the databases from the October 2017-December 2020 CTR and 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) into a singular database for cross-sectional study. Continuous and categorical variables were compared with Wilcoxon rank-sum and Fisher's exact test. Multivariable logistic regression examined associations between demographic factors and women belonging to the DHS or CTR cohort. We performed additional classification tree and random forest variable importance analyses.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Yost MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259300 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature