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Assessing attitudes towards violence against women and girls, their determinants and health-seeking behaviour among women and men in South Sudan: a cross-sectional national survey.

Angelo Lamadrid, Caroline Jeffery, Robert Anguyo, Baburam Devkota, Richard Lako, Joseph J Valadez

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Angelo LamadridInternational Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Caroline JefferyDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Robert AnguyoInternational Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Baburam DevkotaInternational Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Richard LakoFormer Director Division of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Government of the Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan.
Joseph J ValadezInternational Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK joseph.valadez@lstmed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6575-6592

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objectiveInvestigating attitudes accepting two categories of violence against women and girls (VAWG) (intimate partner violence-IPV-and other expressions of VAWG) and their association with seven demographic/social determinants and health-seeking behaviours in South Sudan.

designCross-sectional study using data from the South Sudan National Household Survey 2020.

settingSouth Sudan. PARTICIPANTS AND

methods1741 South Sudanese women and 1739 men aged 15-49 years; data captured between November 2020 and February 2021 and analysed using binary logistic regression.

resultsPeople with secondary or higher education displayed attitudes rejecting acceptance of IPV (OR 0.631, 95% CI 0.508 to 0.783). Women and men living in states with more numerous internally displaced people (IDP) or political/military violence had attitudes accepting IPV more than residents of less violence-affected regions (OR 1.853, 95% CI 1.587 to 2.164). Women had a higher odd of having attitudes accepting IPV than men (OR 1.195, 95% CI 1.014 to 1.409). People knowing where to receive gender-based violence healthcare and psychological support (OR 0.703, 95% CI 0.596 to 0.830) and with primary (OR 0.613, 95% CI 0.515 to 0.729), secondary or higher education (OR 0.596, 95% CI 0.481 to 0.740) displayed attitudes rejecting acceptance of other expressions of VAWG. People residing in states with proportionately more IDP and who accepted IPV were more likely to have attitudes accepting other expressions of VAWG (OR 1.699, 95% CI 1.459 to 1.978; OR 3.195, 95% CI 2.703 to 3.775, respectively).

conclusionAttitudes towards accepting VAWG in South Sudan are associated with women's and men's education, gender, residence and knowledge about health-seeking behaviour. Prioritising women's empowerment and gender transformative programming in the most conflict-affected areas where rates of VAWG are higher should be prioritised along with increasing girls' access to education. A less feasible strategy to decrease gender inequalities is reducing insecurity, military conflict, and displacement, and increasing economic stability.

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Intimate Partner ViolencePatient Acceptance of Health CareAdolescentAdultCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMaleMiddle AgedSouth SudanSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adultbehaviorepidemiologyhealth policyhealth & safetyobservational studysurveys and questionnaires

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