Table 3.
Factors associated with couples knowledge of intimate partner violence in Hadiya zone, Central Ethiopia, July 2023 (N = 430).
| Explanatory variables | Category | Women N (%) |
Men N (%) |
Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | ||||
| Age category | 15–24 | 69 (16.0) | 55 (12.8) | 1.3 (0.7, 2.6) | 0.6 (0.3, 1.3) |
| 25–34 | 275 (64.0) | 230 (53.5) | 1.8 (1.1, 3.1)* | 0.9 (0.6, 1.6) | |
| 35+ | 86 (20.0) | 145 (33.7) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Age at marriage | <20 | 83 (19.3) | 60 (14.0) | 0.7 (0.4, 1.4) | 0.5 (0.3, 0.9)* |
| ≥20 | 347 (80.7) | 370 (86.0) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Education | No education | 165 (38.4) | 155 (36.0) | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Elementary school | 166 (38.6) | 137 (31.9) | 1.6 (1.0, 2.5) | 1.4 (0.8, 2.3) | |
| High school | 72 (16.7) | 80 (18.6) | 3.8 (2.0, 7.3)*** | 1.8 (1.1, 3.5) * | |
| College/higher | 27 (6.3) | 58 (13.5) | 7.3 (2.3, 23.1)** | 2.7 (1.3, 5.4) ** | |
| Occupation | Housewife | 327 (77.1) | 251 (58.4)a | 1.0 | 0.9 (0.5, 1.7) |
| Merchant | 58 (13.7) | 117 (27.2) | 1.0 (0.5, 1.9) | 1.7 (0.8, 3.5) | |
| Employed | 39 (9.2) | 62 (14.4) | 3.1 (1.3, 7.6)* | 1.0 | |
| Marriage type | Monogamy | 357 (83.0) | 357 (83.0) | NI | 2.6 (1.5, 4.7)** |
| Polygamy | 73 (17.0) | 73 (17.0) | NI | 1.0 | |
| ANC | Yes | 299 (70.5) | NA | 2.0 (1.3, 3.2)** | NA |
| No | 125 (29.5) | NA | 1.0 | NA | |
| Husband smokes cigarette | Yes | 81 (18.2) | 81 (18.2) | 0.7 (0.4, 1.3) | 1.0 (0.5, 1.8) |
| No | 349 (81.8) | 349 (81.8) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Husband drinks alcohol | Yes | 117 (27.2) | 117 (27.2) | 0.4 (0.3, 0.7)** | 0.3 (0.2, 0.5) *** |
| No | 313 (72.8) | 313 (72.8) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| No of living children | 0–1 | 66 (15.3) | 66 (15.3) | 1.1 (0.6, 2.3) | 0.9 (0.5, 1.7) |
| 2–4 | 185 (43.0) | 185 (43.0) | 1.0 (0.6, 1.7) | 1.3 (0.8, 2.1) | |
| 5+ | 179 (41.7) | 179 (41.7) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Household wealth index | Low | 141 (33.3) | 141 (33.3) | 0.9 (0.6, 1.6) | 0.8 (0.5, 1.4) |
| Medium | 142 (33.4) | 142 (33.4) | 1.5 (0.9, 2.5) | 0.6 (0.4, 1.0) | |
| High | 141 (33.3) | 141 (33.3) | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
a
Farmer; ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05; IPV, Intimate Partner Violence; ANC, Antenatal Care; Not Included in the multivariate model; 1.0 = Reference category.