Table 1.
Variable name | Items | Coding |
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Witnessing IPV: | ||
Shouting | Have you ever seen or overheard your parents or caregivers shouting at each other? | Coded 1 if answered yes; 0 if answered no |
Witnessing physical IPV | Have you ever seen or overheard your father hit or beat your mother? | Coded 1 if answered yes; 0 if answered no |
Violence experience: | (Note: each participant asked about experience of items below, then asked about perpetrators and time frame) | |
Emotional violence, (includes neglect) | Insulted you, or called you rude or hurtful names? Accused you of witchcraft? Locked you out or made you stay outside? Not given you food? | Lifetime exposure from any perpetrator. Coded 1 if answered yes to any of the items; 0 if answered no to all items |
Physical violence | From perpetrators other than school staff:
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Lifetime exposure from any perpetrator other than school staff, plus lifetime exposure to severe violence from school staff. Coded 1 if answered yes to any of the items; 0 if answered no to all items |
Sexual violence | Disturbed or bothered you by making sexual comments about you? Kissed you, when you did not want them to? Touched your genitals or breasts when you did not want them to, or in a way that made you uncomfortable? Threaten or pressure you to make you do something sexual with them? Make you have sex with them, because they threatened or pressured you? Had sex with you, by physically forcing you? | Lifetime exposure from any perpetrator. Coded 1 if answered yes to any of the items; 0 if answered no to all items |
IPV, intimate partner violence.