ArticleBMJ open2023
Pooled analysis of the association between mental health and violence against women: evidence from five settings in the Global South.
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- Pooled analysis of the association between food insecurity and violence against women: Evidence from low- and middle-income settings.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
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- Understanding non-partner sexual violence perpetration in young Tanzanian men: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Dietary Diversity: A Population-Based Investigation in 8 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- The Angry Echo Chamber: A Study of Extremist and Emotional Language Changes in Incel Communities Over Time.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2024Article
- Anger's moderating influence on the relationship between victimization and perpetration of domestic violence and abuse in patients suffering from severe mental illness. Insights from a cross sectional study using moderated mediation analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe associations between men's poor mental health (depressive and post-traumatic stress symptomatology) and their perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence (NPSV), and women's mental health and their experiences of IPV and NPSV in five settings in the Global South.
designA pooled analysis of data from baseline interviews with men and women participating in five violence against women and girls prevention intervention evaluations.
settingThree sub-Saharan African countries (South Africa, Ghana and Rwanda), and one Middle Eastern country, the occupied Palestinian territories.
participants7021 men and 4525 women 18+ years old from a mix of self-selecting and randomly selected household surveys.
main outcome measuresAll studies measured depression symptomatology using the Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression, and the Harvard Trauma Scale for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among men and women. IPV and NPSV were measured using items from modified WHO women's health and domestic violence and a UN multicountry study to assess perpetration among men, and experience among women.
findingsOverall men's poor mental health was associated with increased odds of perpetrating physical IPV and NPSV. Specifically, men who had more depressive symptoms had increased odds of reporting IPV (adjusted OR (aOR)=2.13; 95%CI 1.58 to 2.87) and NPSV (aOR=1.62; 95% CI 0.97 to 2.71) perpetration compared with those with fewer symptoms. Men reporting PTSD had higher odds of reporting IPV (aOR=1.87; 95% CI 1.44 to 2.43) and NPSV (aOR=2.13; 95% CI 1.49 to 3.05) perpetration compared with those without PTSD. Women who had experienced IPV (aOR=2.53; 95% CI 2.18 to 2.94) and NPSV (aOR=2.65; 95% CI 2.02 to 3.46) had increased odds of experiencing depressive symptoms compared with those who had not.
conclusionsInterventions aimed at preventing IPV and NPSV perpetration and experience must account for the mental health of men as a risk factor, and women's experience.
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