Risk of adverse newborn outcomes among women who experienced physical and psychological intimate partner abuse during pregnancy in Ghana's northern region

Boah, Michael; Abdulai, Nashiru; Issah, Abdul-Nasir; Yeboah, Daudi; Kpordoxah, Mary Rachael; Aballo, Jevaise; Adokiya, Martin Nyaaba

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15391

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“…In Vietnam, there is an increased risk of PTB and LBW for pregnant women who are exposed to violence [12]. Also, according to a study conducted in Ghana's northern region, mothers who had been subjected to prenatal violence had a threefold increased risk of giving delivery to a child that was underweight and a twofold increased risk of giving delivery prematurely [32].…”

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Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Exposed to Violence

Al-Marhabi,

Fahim,

Katooa

et al. 2023

Cureus

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Introduction Domestic violence against women is now widely recognized as a public health issue and a major human rights violation on a global scale. It is a significant risk factor for women's health problems. Pregnancy places a woman under significant physical and psychological pressure, even without additional stressors like abuse. This pressure can have a negative impact on both the mother's and the child's health. This study aims to assess the prevalence of violence among pregnant women and to determine the maternal and fetal outcomes among pregnant women exposed to violence. Materials and methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among 347 postpartum women to assess maternal and fetal outcomes among those who were exposed to violence during their pregnancy. A face-to-face interview was done using one tool with three parts to collect the necessary data. Part one included socio-demographic characteristics and reproductive history for participants, part two included safe and validated dates-physical violence victimization scale, and part three included maternal and fetal outcomes. Result The findings of this study showed that the prevalence of victimization occurred one to three times (28.8%), while 11.5% of victimization occurred four to nine times, and 2.6% of victimization occurred 10 times or more. Many factors play a role in violence, including family income, husband’s jobs, husband smoking, being forced into marriage, a higher number of children, and parity. Additionally, it was discovered that adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes include preterm birth (PTB), early onset of labor, low birth weight (LBW), and neonatal admission to the intensive care unit. Conclusion The result indicates that violence against pregnant women is at a significant rate. Their findings show that there are several factors that may have caused this percentage. Among the factors that contributed to violence in this study were family income, smoking, husbands’ work, forced marriage, the number of pregnancies, and the number of children. To reduce violence during pregnancy, it is crucial to empower women, especially those without a source of income of their own. It is also critical to educate partners and foster healthy relationships between partners.

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Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Exposed to Violence

Al-Marhabi,

Fahim,

Katooa

et al. 2023

Cureus

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“…Even parental educational attainment of less than high school has been associated with IPV (7). IPV victims are more likely to have pre-term deliveries and low-birth-weight babies; both longterm physical and mental health are impacted in women experiencing IPV, including, adversely, their children (12,(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38).…”

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Prevalence, correlates, and trends of intimate partner violence against women in Sierra Leone: findings from 2013 and 2019 demographic and health surveys

Shaikh

2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a globally pervasive public health and medical problem in addition to being a serious violation of women’s rights. The two-fold objectives of this study were to compute the lifetime prevalence and correlates of IPV perpetrated by current/former husbands/partners of ever-married women aged 15–49 years using the nationally representative Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in 2019; ethnicity-based levels and trends of IPV were also computed using the data from the DHS conducted in 2013 along with the 2019 DHS.MethodsTwelve IPV correlates pertaining to socio-demographic, attitudinal, and experiential attributes were analyzed using logistic regression models for bivariate and multivariable analysis. IPV was computed as a composite variable comprising of physical, emotional, and/or sexual IPV.ResultsLifetime prevalence of experiencing any kind of IPV was a staggering 60.81%, whereas emotional, physical, and sexual IPV prevalence were reported by 45.90%, 49.81%, and 8.14% of the respondents, respectively. No ethnicity reported a statistically significant decrease in any type of IPV during the intervening period between the two surveys. Five out of nine ethnicities reported a statistically significant increase in emotional IPV, while few ethnicities reported a statistically significant increase in one or more types of IPV.ConclusionThe high lifetime prevalence of IPV is alarming and points to the need for targeted health promotion campaigns to reverse the tide of IPV in Sierra Leone, including focusing on changes in cultural and ethnicity-based norms and mores to ensure women’s human rights are respected and upheld.

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Risk of adverse newborn outcomes among women who experienced physical and psychological intimate partner abuse during pregnancy in Ghana's northern region

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Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Exposed to Violence

Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Exposed to Violence

Prevalence, correlates, and trends of intimate partner violence against women in Sierra Leone: findings from 2013 and 2019 demographic and health surveys

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