Table 5

Associations between sociodemographic and psychosocial factors and women's exposure to different forms of IPV during pregnancy

Physical violencePsychological violenceSexual violenceControlling behaviour
Variablen (%) with phys. violenceOR (95% CI)n (%) with psycho. violenceOR (95% CI)n (%) with sexual violenceOR (95% CI)n (%) with cont. behaviourOR (95% CI)
Province
 Northern Province54 (8.8)199 (16)147 (7.6)189 (16.0)1
 Kigali city40 (8.8)1.19 (0.68 to 2.06)58 (19)1.00 (0.63 to 1.58)42 (13.8)1.26 (0.69 to 2.26)74 (28.9)1.94 (1.33 to 2.81)
Age groups (years)
 15–3066 (10.4)1108 (17.1)157 (9.0)137 (14.3)1
 31–4628 (9.8)0.99 (0.65 to 1.74)49 (17.1)1.44 (0.71 to 1.83)32 (11.1)1.84 (1.01 to 3.35)126 (22.8)2.17 (1.35 to 3.47)
Pregnancies before index child
 023 (8.0)135 (12.2)127 (9.4)150 (19.7)1
 ≥170 (11.6)1.62 (0.83 to 3.18)120 (20.0)2.11 (1.19 to 3.75)59 (9.89)1.04 (0.51 to 2.18)108 (20.4)1.41 (0.85 to 2.32)
Relation with household head
 Wife/partner82 (10.2)1133 (17.7)171 (9.4)1119 (17.9)1
 Any other relationship12 (7.2)0.57 (0.30 to 1.15)24 (14.4)0.95 (0.33 to 2.74)18 (10.8)1.03 (0.62 to 1.97)44 (29.7)2.40 (0.94 to 6.09)
Social support
 Good70 (9.5)1115 (15.7)156 (7.6)1124 (18.8)1
 Poor24 (12.9)1.23 (0.66 to 2.27)42 (22.6)0.86 (0.51 to 1.44)33 (17.7)2.92 (1.63 to 5.24)38 (25.3)1.33 (0.76 to 2.27)
Household assets summary measure
 Improved (≥1 item)60 (8.4)1106 (14.8)165 (9.1)1130 (20.7)1
 Poor (none of the items)31 (16.0)2.27 (1.29 to 3.98)48 (24.7)2.38 (1.47 to 3.86)22 (11.3)1.40 (0.72 to 2.72)32 (18.4)0.90 (0.52 to 1.55)
Partner/husband's level of Education
 Secondary school or university8 (6.3)113 (10.2)110 (7.8)120 (17.9)1
 Complete primary school or VT24 (9.7)0.71 (0.40 to 1.23)45 (18.1)1.30 (0.66 to 2.56)21 (8.5)1.13 (0.49 to 2.75)46 (20.2)0.88 (0.45 to 1.72)
 Incomplete primary school38 (13.4)0.63 (0.27 to 1.44)52 (18.4)1.33 (0.67 to 2.65)30 (10.6)0.88 (0.38 to 2.05)39 (15.91.19 (0.63 to 2.27)
Partner/husband's age (years)
 ≤4079 (11.8)1118 (17.7)63 (9.4)1114 (19.4)1
 41–706 (5.6)0.38 (0.14 to 1.04)18 (16.7)0.50 (0.23 to 1.07)12 (11.1)0.73 (0.31 to 1.74)11 (11.7)0.53 (0.25 to 1.15)
  • Bold denotes statistical significance. Adjusted ORs with their 95% CIs. N=921.

  • *Values are from the logistic regression models containing all the variables in the table.

  • cont, controlling; phys, physical; psycho, psychological; VT, vocational training.