Factor Influencing Gender Based Violence among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic in PHC of Syangja District, Nepal
Abstract: Pregnancy and
childbirth were a time of unique vulnerability to violence victimization
because of changes in women’s physical, social, emotional, and economic needs
during pregnancy. This study aims to determine the factors associated with
gender-based violence among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinic
(ANC). A cross-sectional study was conducted among 202 pregnant women attend
antenatal ward of primary health care centre (PHC) of Syangja district during
September 2014 to December 2014 by using semi-structure questionnaire with face
to face interviews. SPSS software was used for analysis the data. The
prevalence of gender based violence (GBV) among pregnant women was found to be
91.1%. The socio-demographic variables such as ethnicity, religious, the age of
respondents, the age of marriage, occupation, and annual income had no
association with the experience of different types of GBV (p>0.05). However,
there was a statistically association between husband education (p=0.03), the
age of marriage (p=0.039) and type of marriage (p=0.013) in case of
psychological and economic violence whereas there was no statistically
association between with other types of violence. In conclusion, gender based
violence during pregnancy was a major prevalent public health problem is
Syangja district of Nepal. Focus on age of marriage, types of marriage and
education of husband may reduce gender based violence among the pregnant women.
Women’s empowerment, economic autonomy, sensitization, awareness and needed of
large-scale population-based surveys were the major recommendation of this
study.
Keywords: antenatal clinics;
factor; GBV; Nepal; PHC; pregnant women
Author: Samjhana Gurung,
Jeevan Acharya
Journal Code: jpkedokterangg150385
