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Table 5 Baseline factors associated with discrepancies in IPV reporting between T0 and any subsequent round (among women reporting ever having experienced each type of IPV at T0)

From: Longitudinal inconsistencies in women’s self-reports of lifetime experience of physical and sexual IPV: evidence from the MAISHA trial and follow-on study in North-western Tanzania

Baseline indicator

Physical IPV (n = 154)

Sexual IPV (n = 93)

Discrepant reporting of physical IPV

OR (95% CI)

Discrepant reporting of sexual IPV

OR (95% CI)

Age

    

Under 35

30/53 (57%)

-

24/34 (71%)

-

35 + 

66/101 (65%)

1.45 (0.59–3.57)

44/59 (75%)

1.22 (0.44–3.42)

 

p = 0.287

p = 0.424

p = 0.676

p = 0.702

Education

    

Primary or below

73/115 (63%)

-

49/65 (75%)

-

Above primary

23/39 (59%)

0.83 (0.47–1.46)

19/28 (68%)

0.69 (0.28–1.67)

 

p = 0.616

p = 0.514

p = 0.453

p = 0.410

Household-level financial hardship in past year

    

No

57/81 (70%)

-

30/39 (77%)

-

Yes

39/73 (53%)

0.48 (0.24–0.98)

38/54 (70%)

0.71 (0.30–1.71)

 

p = 0.030

p = 0.045

p = 0.482

p = 0.446

Past year experience of this type of IPV

    

No

63/92 (68%)

-

40/48 (83%)

-

Yes

33/62 (53%)

0.52 (0.26–1.05)

28/45 (62%)

0.33 (0.12–0.89)

 

p = 0.055

p = 0.069

p = 0.022

p = 0.029

Fear of partner in past year

    

Never

78/105 (74%)

-

43/55 (78%)

-

A few times

11/26 (42%)

0.25 (0.10–0.63)

13/18 (72%)

0.73 (0.24–2.15)

Many/most/all of time

7/23 (30%)

0.15 (0.07–0.34)

12/20 (60%)

0.42 (0.13–1.34)

 

p < 0.001

p < 0.001

p = 0.290

p = 0.304

Ever experience of one or more types of IPV (physical and/or sexual)

    

One

60/84 (71%)

-

17/23 (74%)

-

Both

36/70 (51%)

0.42 (0.20–0.90)

51/70 (73%)

0.95 (0.28–3.15)

 

p = 0.033

p = 0.039

p = 0.921

p = 0.930

Ever severe physical IPV

    

No

33/46 (72%)

-

-

-

Yes

63/108 (58%)

0.55 (0.26–1.16)

-

-

 

p = 0.116

p = 0.115

-

-

Ever emotional IPV

    

No

20/22 (91%)

-

12/15 (80%)

-

Yes

76/132 (58%)

0.14 (0.03–0.56)

56/78 (72%)

0.64 (0.19–2.11)

 

p = 0.003

p = 0.006

p = 0.512

p = 0.460