Intimate partner violence in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study from post-conflict northern Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in pregnancy and to understand associations and determinants.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

Two rural health clinics in post-conflict northern Uganda.

Participants

Women attending two rural health clinics for a new service providing cervical cancer screening, who had experienced pregnancy.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Data were collected by a questionnaire using validated questions from the demographic health survey women's questionnaire and the domestic violence module. Data were entered into tablets using Questionnaire Development System software. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was performed, using experience of IPV in pregnancy as the dependent

SUBMITTER: Clarke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887065 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature