Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study

Table 6 Experiences of, and help-seeking for, community violence

	Baseline		Endline		Unadjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI) ¹	P	Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI) ²	P
	n	%	n	%
Past year experience of community violence*
Yes	102	15.0	97	11.3	0.76 (0.56–1.04)	0.085	0.81 (0.58–1.14)	0.226
No	576	84.8	755	87.7
Total respondents	679	100	861	100
Help-seeking for community violence
Yes	65	63.7	63	64.9	1.28 (0.64–2.55)	0.488	1.77 (0.80–3.93)	0.159
No	37	36.3	34	35.0
Total respondents	102	100	97	100

* The following examples were given: witch-hunting, communal violence, social boycott, being prevented from accessing public facilities or common resources, being subjected to a community-imposed penalty
¹ Adjusted for clustering by village with random effect term only
² Adjusted for literacy, income regularity, socio-economic disadvantage and clustering by village

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