Engaging with faith groups to prevent VAWG in conflict-affected communities: results from two community surveys in the DRC

Le Roux, Elisabet; Corboz, Julienne; Scott, Nigel; Sandilands, Maggie; Lele, Uwezo Baghuma; Bezzolato, Elena; Jewkes, Rachel

doi:10.1186/s12914-020-00246-8

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Table 4 Baseline and endline mean scores and frequencies for social norms and attitudes associated with gender and violence against women, disaggregated by gender of respondent

From: Engaging with faith groups to prevent VAWG in conflict-affected communities: results from two community surveys in the DRC

	Male respondents			Female respondents
	Baseline %/Mean	Endline %/Mean	P value	Baseline %/Mean	Endline %/Mean	P value
Social norms composite scales (mean)
Gender attitudes scale	15.7	18.6	< 0.001	16.4	18	< 0.001
Masculinities attitudes scale	14.7	14.9	0.159	15.4	15.2	0.853
Rape myths scale	16	16.7	0.001	16.8	16.9	0.746
Stigma scale	9.9	10.6	< 0.001	10.2	10.6	0.002
Agreement with statements associated with justification for physical IPV (%)
There are times when a woman deserves to be beaten	51.1	28.2	< 0.001	41.6	23.7	< 0.001
A husband is justified in beating his wife in the following situations:
If she goes out without telling him	31.7	24.1	0.010	26.7	30.1	0.259
If she neglects the children	31.7	20.8	< 0.001	26.2	27	0.785
If she argues with him	35.8	26.2	0.002	34.1	32.3	0.574
If she refuses to have sex with him	41.8	23.4	< 0.001	34.9	31.9	0.334
If she burns the food	14	11.9	0.344	15.5	15.8	0.903
If he is not satisfied with the way she does the housework	24.6	15.6	0.001	19.6	21.1	0.593
If she disobeys him	56.1	31.1	< 0.001	52.4	38	< 0.001
If he finds out that she has been unfaithful	64	47.2	< 0.001	64.5	61.2	0.302
Agreement with statements associated with justification for sexual IPV
A man is entitled to sex from his partner even if she doesn’t feel like it	76	39.9	< 0.001	67.6	45	< 0.001
A woman is able to refuse sex in the following situations:
If she doesn’t want to	34.5	65.5	< 0.001	40.4	59.8	< 0.001
If he is drunk	34	64.3	< 0.001	39.6	63.6	< 0.001
If she is sick	59.8	78.1	< 0.001	59.1	74.6	< 0.001
If he mistreats her	42.7	68.5	< 0.001	45.3	68.5	< 0.001
Agreement with statements associated with response to IPV (%)
A woman should tolerate violence to keep her family together	62.7	36.2	< 0.001	47.4	35.8	< 0.001
A man using violence against his wife is a private matter that shouldn’t be discussed outside the couple	53.9	32.1	< 0.001	51.4	32	< 0.001
If a man mistreats his wife, others outside of the family should intervene	90.6	86.9	0.075	91.2	80.2	< 0.001

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