Table 1.
Frequency of women exposed to individual- and neighborhood-level indicators of community violence according to levels of intimate partner violence (IPV), adjusted odds ratio (AOR) (95 % CI), and p values for associations with IPV against women (n = 923)
| N (%) | Frequency of IPV (past year) N (%) |
AORa (95 % CI) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Yes | No | |||
| Individual level | |||||
| Partner in fights with men | |||||
| Yes | 100 (10.7) | 64 (64.0) | 36 (36.0) | 3.24 (2.03–5.17) | 0.000 |
| Neighborhood level | |||||
| Neighborhood homicide rate quintiles (rate per 100,000 inhabitants) | |||||
| 1st quintile (5 to 27 homicides) | 191 (20.7) | 38 (19.9) | 153 (80.1) | 1 | |
| 2nd quintile (29 to 45 homicides) | 198 (21.5) | 46 (23.2) | 152 (76.8) | 1.15 (0.68–1.94) | 0.463 |
| 3rd quintile (51 to 70 homicides) | 175 (19.0) | 21 (12.0) | 154 (88.0) | 0.52 (0.28–0.96) | 0.055 |
| 4th quintile (72 to 101 homicides) | 179 (19.4) | 29 (16.2) | 150 (83.8) | 0.76 (0.43–1.35) | 0.378 |
| 5th quintile (103 to 154 homicides) | 180 (19.5) | 28 (15.6) | 152 (84.4) | 0.72 (0.41–1.28) | 0.298 |
| Neighborhood property crime rate quintiles (rate per 100,000 inhabitants) | |||||
| 1st quintile (12 to 69 crimes) | 202 (21.9) | 33 (16.3) | 169 (83.7) | 1 | |
| 2nd quintile (71 to 102 crimes) | 182 (19.7) | 31 (17.0) | 151 (83.0) | 1.05 (0.60–1.84) | 0.853 |
| 3rd quintile (103 to 122 crimes) | 181 (19.6) | 31 (17.1) | 150 (82.9) | 1.05 (0.60–1.84) | 0.861 |
| 4th quintile (124 to 147 crimes) | 199 (21.6) | 49 (24.6) | 150 (75.4) | 1.67 (1.00–2.80) | 0.049 |
| 5th quintile (148 to 195 crimes) | 159 (17.2) | 18 (11.3) | 141 (88.7) | 0.66 (0.35–1.24) | 0.197 |
| Households with crime victims in the previous 4 weeks within the neighborhood | |||||
| No of households with crime reported | 372 (39.6) | 71 (19.1) | 301 (80.9) | 1 | |
| One household with crime reported | 391 (41.6) | 66 (16.9) | 325 (83.1) | 0.86 (0.57–1.32) | 0.502 |
| Two or more households with crime reported | 177 (18.8) | 26 (14.7) | 151 (85.3) | 0.72 (0.42–1.26) | 0.250 |
aAdjusted for the number of years living in the community