Intimate partner violence among couples in 10 DHS countries: Predictors and health outcomes

The goals of this study are threefold: 1) To report the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among currently married or cohabiting women in 10 developing countries; 2) To identify key characteristics in each country including couple characteristics associated with experiencing physical or sexual IPV; and 3) To describe the association between womens experience of IPV and selected reproductive nutritional and child health outcomes. This report analyzes data from 10 recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): Bangladesh (2004) Bolivia (2003/2004) the Dominican Republic (2002) Haiti (2005) Kenya (2003) Malawi (2004) Moldova (2005) Rwanda (2005) Zambia (2001/2002) and Zimbabwe (2005/2006). The first part of this report provides prevalence estimates of violence experienced by women within couples who were in marital or…