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TROPICAL DOCTOR
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 52-54Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1258/td.2007.060190
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Using a community-based cross-sectional survey, this study attempted to determine the prevalence and correlates of intimate partner physical violence against women in Kofale District, Ethiopia. The study showed that 52.6% of the respondents had experienced intimate partner physical violence in their lifetime and 30.2% in the 12 months before the survey. Witnessing family violence as a child, education, place of residence, parity, duration of the marriage, a tradition of marriage arrangement and the partners' use of alcohol were associated with intimate partner physical violence.
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