Effects of couple-based violence prevention education on male partners' knowledge, attitudes and controlling behavior related to intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Zeleke Dutamo Agde e outros, 2025 · Frontiers in Public Health
A couple-based violence prevention education program in rural Ethiopia significantly reduced male partners' odds of justifying wife-beating (AOR = 0.324).
Estimativa · Adjusted odds ratio of holding supportive attitudes toward wife-beating
0,324 [0,229; 0,459]
adjusted odds ratio
p: <0.001
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster RCT (16 kebeles, 8 intervention and 8 control)
- População
- Married male partners of pregnant women in rural districts of Hadiya Zone, Central Ethiopia, 2023–2024
- Amostra
- 432 · Couples (432 male partners across 16 kebeles)
Onde está o número
Result > Intervention effectiveness > Male partners' knowledge, attitude toward intimate partner violence, and controlling behavior at the end line; Table 7 and Result section 'Intervention effectiveness'
Moreover, male partners in the intervention group were 67.6% less likely to report a supportive attitude toward wife beating compared to male partners in the control group (AOR = 0.324; 95% CI 0.229–0.459).
Contexto
What changed: Six monthly couple-based education sessions addressing gender norms, relationship dynamics, communication, and violence triggers delivered by rural health extension workers. Comparison: Usual standard of care without violence prevention education. Limits: Relies on self-reported attitudinal measures susceptible to social desirability bias, and participants were unblinded to the intervention.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInformação e persuasão
- TipoCapacitação e aconselhamento
- MecanismoInformação, contato e atitudes sociais
- EixoIgualdade de gênero
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Lugares do estudo
- Lemo · Distrito ou local · ET
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23