The severity of violence against women by intimate partners and associations with perpetrator alcohol and drug use in the Vhembe district, South Africa
SOURCE: African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Pengpid
KEYWORDS: ALCOHOL USE, DRUG ABUSE, PARTNER VIOLENCE, WOMEN
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8090
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2560
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2560
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Pengpid
KEYWORDS: ALCOHOL USE, DRUG ABUSE, PARTNER VIOLENCE, WOMEN
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8090
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2560
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2560
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Abstract
Substance use is cited as a major contributing factor to intimate partner violence in South Africa. The aim of the study was to assess the association between the frequency and severity of several types of intimate partner violence against women, who have been granted a protection order, and the use of alcohol and illicit drug use by perpetrators. Using systematic sampling, 268 women (18 years and older), who had consecutively received a protection order in the Vhembe district in South Africa, were assessed by a research assistant. The results indicate that these women reported perpetrators 34% of whom did not have a drinking problem and no drug use in the past three months, 31.3% with problem drinking only, 4.1% drug use only, and 30.6% with problem drinking and drug use in the past three months. Multivariate logistic regression found that having a partner with problem drinking only and having a partner with problem drinking and drug use were associated with greater physical intimate partner violence. Having a partner with problem drinking and drug use was associated with an increased psychological intimate partner abuse. Problem drinking and drug use among male partners is a strong determinant of physical intimate partner violence among battered women in South Africa. Intimate partner violence prevention measures should address reduction of problem drinking and drug use among men.-
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