Sexual coercion of married women in Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual coercion is an important public health issue due to its negative association with social and health outcomes. The paper aims to examine the prevalence of sexual coercion perpetrated by husbands on their wives in Nepal and to identify the characteristics associated with this phenomenon.

Methods

The data used in this paper comes from a cross-sectional survey on "Domestic Violence in Nepal" carried out in 2009. A total of 1,536 married women were interviewed and associations between sexual coercion and the explanatory variables were assessed via bivariate analysis using Chi-square tests. Logistic regression was then applied to assess the net effect of several independent variables on sexual coercion.

Results

Overall, about three in five women (58%) had

SUBMITTER: Adhikari R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2987890 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature