Table 3 History of PV and related characteristics among pregnant women attending antenatal care services in public health facilities in Shire Endaselassie town, northern Ethiopia, 2015
Variables | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Reported history of PV among pregnant women’s mothers (n = 422) | ||
Yes | 101 | 23.95 |
No | 290 | 68.70 |
Do not know | 31 | 7.30 |
Dominance in decision making of household affairs (n = 442) | ||
Equally | 310 | 73.5 |
Husband | 104 | 24.6 |
Wife | 8 | 1.9 |
Decision making in purchasing household materials (n = 422) | ||
Equally | 331 | 78.40 |
Intimate partner only | 84 | 19.90 |
Wife only | 7 | 1.70 |
Intimate partner support during pregnancy (n = 422) | ||
Yes | 417 | 98.80 |
No | 5 | 1.20 |
Frequency of partner alcohol consumption (n = 142) | ||
Consume every day | 37 | 26.06 |
Consume 1–2 times a week | 48 | 33.80 |
Consume 1–3 times a month | 57 | 40.14 |
Reported reasons of wife beating (102 with multiple response) | ||
If wife disobey | 95 | 93.14 |
If wife did not complete housework | 91 | 89.22 |
If wife refuses sex | 82 | 80.39 |
If wife is unfaithful | 74 | 72.55 |
If wife asks intimate partner whether he has other wife | 71 | 69.61 |
Reasons of perpetration (n = 87) | ||
Husband consume alcohol | 39 | 44.83 |
When wife disobey or argued with husband | 24 | 27.59 |
When wife refuse to have sex | 14 | 16.09 |
When wife did not complete housework | 10 | 11.49 |
Magnitude of PV during pregnancy compared with non-pregnancy time (n = 87) | ||
Get worsen | 14 | 16.09 |
Lesser | 10 | 11.50 |
The same | 63 | 72.41 |
Frequency PV during current pregnancy (n = 87) | ||
Once | 24 | 27.59 |
Twice | 37 | 42.53 |
More than twice | 26 | 29.89 |