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Table 8 Endline results for social norms, attitudes and experience and perpatration of IPV, disaggregated by exposure to intervention activities

From: Engaging with faith groups to prevent VAWG in conflict-affected communities: results from two community surveys in the DRC

 

Attended counselling?

Attended public talk or discussion?

Yes (%/mean)

No (%/mean)

p value

Yes (%/mean)

No (%/mean)

p value

Social norms composite scales (mean)

 Gender attitudes scale

18.6

17.5

< 0.001

18.7

16.4

< 0.001

 Masculinities attitudes scale

15.2

14.6

0.011

15.3

13.9

< 0.001

 Rape myths scale

16.9

16.6

0.335

17

15.7

< 0.001

 Stigma scale

10.9

9.9

< 0.001

10.8

9.5

< 0.001

Agreement with statements associated with justification for and response to IPV (%)

 A woman should tolerate violence to keep her family together

34.1

40.6

0.027

34.4

43.4

0.007

 A man using violence against his wife is a private matter that shouldn’t be discussed outside the couple

30.5

35.8

0.064

29

46.8

< 0.001

 If a man mistreats his wife, others outside of the family should intervene

82.4

86.3

0.090

83.8

82.4

0.886

 There are times when a woman deserves to be beaten

23.2

31.8

0.003

22.8

40.5

< 0.001

 A man is entitled to sex from his partner even if she doesn’t feel like it

37.6

53.1

< 0.001

37.9

64.4

< 0.001

Past 12 month experience of IPV (female respondents)

 Emotional IPV

17.6

20

0.528

18.2

19.2

0.827

 Physical IPV

16.3

17.3

0.780

15.8

20.3

0.337

 Sexual IPV

15.6

14.1

0.663

15.1

15.2

0.977

 Any IPV

28

32.1

0.367

28.6

32.9

0.440

Past 12 month perpetration of IPV (male respondents)

 Emotional IPV

13.5

14.1

0.872

13.7

13.6

0.988

 Physical IPV

13.3

8.5

0.130

12.8

8

0.203

 Sexual IPV

9.1

7

0.451

9.1

4.6

0.156

 Any IPV

24.5

20.4

0.329

24.2

18.2

0.222