dc.description | A Project submitted to the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Master of Public Health (Population and Reproductive Health Education) of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Intimate partner violence is a public health issue which should be of concern to
everyone. There are quite a number of studies which focus mainly on women as
victims yet there exist a great percentage of men who are suffering silently from this
scourge. There are very few studies that explored this area because it is a patriarchal
society. This study was carried out to assess the experience of intimate partner
violence among married men in Ibadan North West Local Government Area
(IBNWLGA), Oyo State, Nigeria.
The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey which involved the use of a three
stage random sampling technique. The process included: random selection of seven
wards out of the eleven wards in the local government; stratification of IBNWLGA
into three by characteristics and selection of 400 respondents from 650 households
through purposive sampling. A validated semi structured interviewer administered
questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics and t tests were used
to analyse data.
Respondents’ mean age was 40.5/ ±9.93, 46.3% had tertiary education and 70% were
Christians. Majority of the respondents had one wife (88.5%) and over half had been
married for less than ten years (59.3%). A total number of 56.8% respondents had a
positive history of alcohol intake while 18.55 had ever smoked cigarette. A large
percentage of the respondents (83.3%) perceived that men ought not to talk to their
wives harshly. The forms of physical violence ever experienced by the men include
slaps (13%), throwing an object (7.4%), bites (6.1%) and throwing punches (6.6%).
The most common forms of psychological violence ever experienced by the men were
nagging (36.2%), ignoring and treating him indifferently (34%), insulting and making
him feel bad about himself (24.2%). Refusing to have sex with the man (29.2%) and
insistence on anal sex (5.9%) were some forms of sexual violence ever experienced
by the respondents. Further analysis was carried out to determine the percentage of
respondents who experienced the various forms of violence alone, a combination of
two forms and all the three forms too. Results are as follows; psychological violence
alone- 30.7%, sexual violence alone- 21.2% , physical violence alone- 10.8%,
psychological and sexual violence -16.2%, psychological and physical violence –
8.7%, physical and sexual violence -6.3%. A percentage of 6.1% had ever
experienced all forms of intimate partner violence. There was significant relationship
between history of violence and the three forms of violence.
The experience of intimate partner violence by men is common. Public
enlightenment, social support, family life education and counselling are recommended
for addressing the problem. | en_US |