Women are considerably more exposed to intimate partner violence than men in Rwanda: Results from a population-based, cross-sectional study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Umubyeyi, Aline ^a,c   Mogren, Ingrid ^b   Ntaganira, Joseph ^a   Krantz, Gunilla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exposure; Intimate partner violence; Prevalence; Risk factors; Rwanda; Young men and women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE; RWANDA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL CRIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RWANDA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906836101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-99     Document Type: Article

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