Prevalence of Danger Assessment Items at Baseline and Correlation With Violence Severity at Follow-Up Among myPlan Kenya Intervention Participants, Nairobi, Kenya
| Item | Overall Item Prevalence at Baseline, % | Item Prevalence at Baseline by Follow-Upa Violence Severity (n=103) | Phi | RRR (95% CI) | Item Weightb | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less Severe IPV, % (n=61) | Severe IPV, % (n=42) | P Value | |||||
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1. Has the physical violence increased in severity or frequency over the past year? | 75.7 | 68.9 | 85.7 | .05 | 0.19 |
2.71 (0.98, 7.52) | 1 |
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2. Does he own a dangerous weapon he would use during a fight (machete, gun, sword, club, knife, whip, etc.)? | 62.1 | 49.2 | 81.0 | .001 | 0.32 |
4.39c (1.75, 11.01) | 3 |
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3. During the past year, have you left him after living together or being a couple (even if you got back together)? | 82.5 | 80.3 | 85.7 | .48 | 0.07 |
1.47 (0.50, 4.28) | not retained |
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4. Is he unemployed? | 37.9 | 31.2 | 47.6 | .09 | 0.17 |
2.01 (0.89, 4.52) | 1 |
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5. Has he ever used a weapon against you or threatened you with a lethal weapon (machete, gun, sword, club, knife, whip, etc.)? | 66.0 | 55.7 | 81.0 | .008 | 0.26 |
3.38c (1.34, 8.48) | 2 |
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6. Does he threaten to kill you? | 64.1 | 55.7 | 76.2 | .03 | 0.21 |
2.54d (1.06, 6.07) | 1 |
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7. Has he previously been in trouble with the police or chief for violence against his partner or children? | 52.4 | 44.3 | 64.3 | .05 | 0.20 |
2.27d (1.01, 5.09) | 1 |
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8. Do you have a child that is not his? | 32.0 | 36.1 | 26.2 | .29 | 0.10 |
0.63 (0.27, 1.49) | not retained |
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9. Has he ever forced you to have sex when you did not wish to do so? | 82.5 | 73.8 | 95.2 | .007 | 0.28 |
7.11c (1.53, 32.35) | 4 |
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10. Does he ever try to choke you? | 58.3 | 39.3 | 85.7 | <.001 | 0.46 |
9.25c (3.38, 25.28) | 4 |
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11. Does he use drugs, such as bhang, khat, heroine, or cocaine? | 49.5 | 44.3 | 57.1 | .20 | 0.13 |
1.67 (0.76, 3.71) | not retained |
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12. Does he have a drinking problem? | 55.3 | 52.5 | 59.5 | .48 | 0.07 |
1.33 (0.60, 2.95) | not retained |
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13. Does he control most or all of your daily activities? For instance: does he tell you who you can be friends with, when you can see your family, how much money you can spend, whether or not you can use birth control? | 73.8 | 68.9 | 81.0 | .17 | 0.14 |
1.92 (0.75, 4.93) | 1 |
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14. Is he violently and constantly jealous of you? (For instance, does he say “If I can't have you, no one can”?) | 89.3 | 83.6 | 97.6 | .03 | 0.22 |
8.04d (0.99, 65.40) | 4 |
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15. Have you ever been beaten by him while you were pregnant? | 61.2 | 49.2 | 78.6 | .003 | 0.30 |
3.79c (1.55, 9.24) | 2 |
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16. Has he ever threatened or tried to commit suicide? | 32.0 | 23.0 | 45.2 | .02 | 0.23 |
2.77d (1.18, 6.50) | 1 |
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17. Does he threaten to harm your children? | 19.4 | 9.8 | 33.3 | .003 | 0.29 |
4.58c (1.58, 13.2) | 3 |
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18. Do you believe he is capable of killing you? | 58.3 | 49.2 | 71.4 | .02 | 0.22 |
2.58d (1.11, 5.96) | 1 |
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19. Does he follow or spy on you, leave threatening notes or messages, destroy your belongings, or call you when you don't want him to? | 75.7 | 68.9 | 85.7 | .05 | 0.19 |
2.71 (0.98, 7.53) | 1 |
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20. Have YOU ever threatened or tried to commit suicide? | 33.0 | 26.2 | 42.9 | .08 | 0.17 |
2.11 (0.91, 4.86) | 1 |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; IPV, intimate partner violence; RRR, relative risk ratio.
↵a Chi-squared tests used to test difference in baseline danger assessment item between violence severity at follow-up; Fisher’s exact test for cells <5.
↵b Due to small n’s, weighting for Kenya-Danger Assessment weighted was based on effect size rather than statistical significance. RRR of 2 to <3=weight of 1; RRR of 3 to <4=weight of 2; RRR of 4 to <5=weight of 3; RRR of 5+=weight of 4.
c P<.01.
d P<.05.