- Title
- Gender-based violence among youths in eastern Ethiopia
- Creator
- Beyene, Addisu Shunu
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health issue and in developing countries like Ethiopia, the rate is particularly high. GBV has devastating physical and mental health effects on youths and affects educational performance. Gender inequality and discrimination, absence of power and control, social norms, the condoning of abuse, and political, economic, cultural, and religious aspects are some of the underlying factors for GBV. There are a number of cross-sectional studies on GBV in Ethiopia. However, the results from these studies are limited as they focus on sexual violence only (while youths are experiencing or perpetrating multiple types of GBV), use non-validated tools, are not representative of the general population, and have not researched GBV perpetration by male high school students in Ethiopia. Little is known about the extent of different types of GBV in the Ethiopian school setting. Therefore, one of the aims of this thesis was to determine GBV among youths in the Ethiopian school setting. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted, which found a high prevalence of GBV and suggested effective prevention and intervention in sub-Saharan Africa. The meta-analysis found that GBV is very high among young students in educational institutions; therefore, a research project was designed to determine the GBV among high school students aged 15-24 years in eastern Ethiopia. The study population for this thesis was high school students (both males and females) aged 15-24 years in eastern Ethiopian schools. An institutional-based cross-sectional survey was employed, using a range of measures, including the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Life Events and the UN Multi-country Study on men’s perpetration questionnaires. Data were collected from 2263 (1199 female and 1064 male) participants by using a multistage sampling technique. Poisson regression analysis with robust variance estimators was used to investigate the association between GBV and risk factors. Findings revealed that more than half of the study participants experienced or perpetrated any type of GBV. A considerable number of participants experienced or perpetrated multiple co-occurrences of different types of GBV. The main factors associated with the experience or perpetration of any type of GBV were having had a discussion of reproductive health with their family, being married or partnered, substance use, and being sexually active. The results revealed that GBV among females and GBV perpetration by male students were highly prevalent. This thesis suggests that effective primary and secondary prevention through the education of youths about sexual experience, pornography, substance use, and relationships could all help in reducing GBV. National-level longitudinal studies are needed to thoroughly investigate community- and society-level factors and the consequences of and possible prevention mechanisms for GBV among youths in school and out of school. Moreover, the findings of this thesis suggest that GBV prevention and counseling intervention programs are urgently needed in the school setting.
- Subject
- gender-based violence; perpetration; victimization; high school; youth; East Hararghe; Eastern Ethiopia; thesis by publication
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464858
- Identifier
- uon:47130
- Rights
- Copyright 2021 Addisu Shunu Beyene
- Language
- eng
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