Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with violence against children in refugee settlements in Uganda

Odwe, George; Obare, Francis; Muthuri, Stella; Kisaakye, Peter; Habteyesus, Dagim; Seruwagi, Gloria; Wado, Yohannes Dibaba; Dessie, Yadeta; Wandera, Bonnie; Kabiru, Caroline W.; Undie, Chi-Chi

doi:10.1186/s13031-025-00661-5

Conflict and Health

Table 3 Proportion of respondents who experienced physical or emotional VAC by a caregiver or sexual VAC by any perpetrator by socio-demographic factors, Uganda HVACS 2022

From: Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with violence against children in refugee settlements in Uganda

		Experienced physical violence in childhood by a caregiver		Experienced sexual violence in childhood by any perpetrator		Experienced emotional violence in childhood by a caregiver
	Unweighted n	Weighted %	p-value	Weighted %	p-value	Weighted %	p-value
13-17-year-olds
Sex
Females	716	20.4		8.6		22.6
Males	532	38.5	0.023	10.3	0.531	24.7	0.626
Level of education
Never attended/less than primary	154	22.6		10.2		21.1
Some/completed primary	1038	28.5		8.4	0.065	22.4	0.089
Some/completed secondary or higher	56	53.1	0.049	21.8		43.0
Worked for money or other payments in the past 12 months
No	955	22.4		7.8		20.2
Yes	293	49.4	< 0.001	14.4	0.046	33.5	0.075
Orphanhood status
Not orphan	939	27.7		8.4		23.3
Orphan	309	34.5	< 0.001	12.6	0.163	24.5	0.795
Lived with biological mother
No	335	32.0		12.3		25.8
Yes	913	28.2	0.497	8.2	0.176	22.7	0.614
Country of origin
South Sudan	592	26.0		7.8		25.9
DRC	593	32.1	0.035	13.2	0.289	18.5	0.457
Others^b	63	54.3		10.8		22.6
18-24-year-olds
Sex
Females	622	21.6		19.4		17.1
Males	395	38.5	0.007	9.5	0.111	22.5	0.201
Level of education
Never attended/less than primary	232	27.8		17.4		10.1
Some/completed primary	460	28.6	0.696	13.3	0.722	19.4	0.038
Some/completed secondary or higher	325	33.8		14.2		24.0
Worked for money or other payments in the past 12 months
No	497	21.8		12.3		18.0
Yes	520	38.4	0.012	15.9	0.221	21.8	0.202
Orphanhood status
Not orphan	687	33.9		15.2		20.4
Orphan^a	330	22.6	0.065	12.0	0.414	18.8	0.720
Lived with biological mother
No	494	25.2		17.0		21.5
Yes	523	34.7	0.189	12.0	0.278	18.8	0.590
Country of origin
South Sudan	524	28.3		10.0		20.7
DRC	431	32.1	0.458	19.8	0.099	17.5	0.798
Others^b	62	43.9		31.5		21.0

Note: ^a−Lost one or both parents before age 18; ^b-Others include Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan

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