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ABSTRACT
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a reality the average Nigerian woman has to grapple with every day. Various studies have investigated the factors associated with IPV against women, but there has been a paucity of studies undertaken on the comparative analysis of IPV against women in different places of residence in Sub Saharan Africa. Thus, this study examines the comparative prevalence and predictors of physical, sexual, and emotional IPV among women in rural and urban areas in Nigeria. The study employed the 2013 Nigerian Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) data, and the subsample for this study were married women in Nigeria (N = 26,403). The study reveals several factors that associated with IPV cut across rural and urban areas, like the history of abuse and husband alcohol consumption, while several factors of IPV are peculiar to urban areas (like employment status and age predicting physical IPV), and rural areas (like wealth index and religion predicting physical IPV). The study points out the complex nature of IPV among Nigerian women and this implies that the critical health and support structures and policies for IPV victims should account for the residential context that shapes the victims’ socio-demographic status and abusive experiences.
Acknowledgments
The author gratefully appreciates the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) program for making the dataset of this study available for use.
Disclosure of Interest
The author declares no potential conflicts of interest with regards to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this study and article.
Ethical Standards and Informed Consent
All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation [institutional and national] and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. The NDHS study was approved by the National Health Research Ethics Committee (Assigned Number: NHREC/01/01/2007) (NPC [Nigeria] and ICF International, 2014). Before the questionnaires were distributed, signed informed consent for the survey was obtained from the respondents at the beginning of the interviews (NPC [Nigeria] and ICF International, 2014).