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Table 1 Dependent variable derivation from the DHS survey data (2014)

From: Intimate partner violence among pregnant women in Kenya: forms, perpetrators and associations

 

Did your (last) husband/partner ever:

Form of violence

(a)

Say or do something to humiliate you in front of others?

Emotional

(b)

Threaten to hurt or harm you or someone you care about?

Violence

(c)

Insult you or make you feel bad about yourself?

 

(d)

Push you, shake you, or throw something at you?

 

(e)

Slap you?

 

(f)

Twist your arm or pull your hair?

Physical

(g)

Punch you with his fist or with something that could hurt you?

Violence

(h)

Kick you, drag you, or beat you up?

 

(i)

Try to choke you or burn you on purpose?

 

(j)

Threaten or attack you with a knife, gun, or other weapon?

 

(k)

Physically force you to have sexual intercourse with him when you did not want to?

Sexual

(l)

Physically force you to perform any other sexual acts you did not want to?

Violence

(m)

Force you with threats or in any other way to perform sexual acts you did not want to?

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