Intervention effects on gender-based violence by life stage
| Outcome | N exposed | Overall % or mean | Intervention effect | |
| Obs. | CF | |||
| Very young adolescents† | ||||
| % of girls whom boys touched on their buttocks or breasts without their permission in past 3 months | 137 | 8.4 | 14.1 | −5.7 (−16.0, 3.5) |
| % of boys who touched a girl on her buttocks or breasts without permission in past 3 months | 172 | 6.8 | 7.2 | 0.4 (−19.3, 11.3) |
| Older adolescents‡ | ||||
| Inequitable attitudes towards GBV scale§ | 553 | 23.6 | 25.5 | −1.9 (−5.0,–0.2)* |
| % who are confident that they would get help if they are being touched in ways that make them feel uncomfortable | 553 | 91.2 | 82.7 | 8.5 (3.2, 13.8)* |
| % of girls whom boys touched on their buttocks or breasts without their permission in past 3 months | 219 | 16.7 | 18.5 | −1.8 (−7.4, 3.8) |
| % of boys who touched a girl on her buttocks or breasts without permission in past 3 months | 334 | 4.3 | 12.0 | −7.7 (−13.1,–2.3)* |
| Newly married/newly parenting‡ | ||||
| Inequitable attitudes towards GBV scale | 224 | 23.6 | 28.3 | −4.7 (−9.8,–0.3)* |
| % who reacted violently to the partner | 224 | 5.3 | 21.0 | −15.7 (−27.1,–4.4)* |
*P<0.05
†Effects adjusted/matched on age, person staying with, presence of sibling of opposite sex in household, education level, current schooling status, religion and district.
‡Effects adjusted/matched on age, marital status, education level, sex, religious affiliation, had biological children or not, employment status and district.
§This scale and all other scales were calculated from 0 to 100 as the average of dichotomous items multiplied by 100.
CF, Counterfactual or expected outcome in absence of exposure; GBV, gender-based violence; Obs, Observed outcomes among the exposed.