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. 2012 Dec 24;2012:187890. doi: 10.1155/2012/187890

Table 3.

Men's and women's attitudes as predictors of women's IPV report, multivariable logistic regression analysisa.

Men's attitudes Women's attitudes Couple discordanced
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Is a husband ever justified in beating his wife?
 Yesb 1.34 0.95, 1.88 1.31 0.93, 1.85 1.01 0.75, 1.37
Is any kind of violence justified if a woman refuses sex?
 Yesb 1.06 0.76, 1.47 2.29 1.65, 3.17* 1.35 0.99, 1.79
Who has more say about having sex?
 Wifec 1.13 0.60, 2.16 1.31 0.70, 2.45 1.06 0.78, 1.45
 Bothc 0.93 0.66, 1.30 0.70 0.50, 0.98**
Who has more power in your relationship?
 Wifec 1.40 0.73, 2.66 0.91 0.28, 2.94 1.20 0.89, 1.69
 Bothc 1.33 0.84, 2.11 0.43 0.21, 0.89**

aThe adjusted model assesses the relationship between each independent variable and IPV, adjusting for the other independent variables in the model and confounders-age, socioeconomic position and education (see Measures).

bReference group is never justified.

cReference group is husband.

dReference group is concordance in responses.

*P < 0.0125.

**P < 0.05.