Participation in household decision making and justification of wife beating: evidence from the 2018 Mali Demographic and Health Survey
Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Dzantor, Selorm, Sambah, Francis, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, and Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena (2022) Participation in household decision making and justification of wife beating: evidence from the 2018 Mali Demographic and Health Survey. International Health, 14 (1). pp. 74-83.
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Abstract
Background: We assessed the association between women's participation in household decision making and justification of wife beating among married women ages 15–49 y in Mali.
Methods: We employed a cross-sectional study design among 7893 women of reproductive age involving a two-stage sampling technique using version 6 of the Mali Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) data, which was conducted in 2018.
Results: Approximately 37% participated in at least one household decision while 23.4% reported that they would not justify wife beating in any of the stated circumstances. Women who participated in at least one household decision had lower odds (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.834 [confidence interval {CI} 0.744 to 0.935]) of justifying wife beating. With respect to the covariates, we found that women 45–49 y of age had lower odds of justifying wife beating compared with those ages 15–19 y (AOR 0.569 [CI 0.424 to 0.764]). Women with higher education (AOR 0.419 [CI 0.265 to 0.662]) and those whose husbands had secondary education (AOR 0.825 [CI 0.683 to 0.995]) had lower odds of justifying wife beating. Women who lived in urban areas were less likely to justify wife-beating (AOR 0.328 [CI 0.275 to 0.390]) compared with those who lived in rural areas.
Conclusion: This study suggests that participation in household decision making is associated with a significantly lower rate of justifying wife beating in Mali. These results underscore the need for various interventions to empower women to increase women's participation in decision making to reduce justification of domestic violence.
| Item ID: | 73298 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1876-3405 |
| Keywords: | household decision making, intimate partner violence, Mali, wife beating |
| Copyright Information: | ©TheAuthor(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Research Data: | https://dhsprogram.com/data/dataset/Mali_Standard-DHS_2018.cfm?flag=0 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2022 08:59 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4206 Public health > 420606 Social determinants of health @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2004 Public health (excl. specific population health) > 200401 Behaviour and health @ 100% |
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