Prevalence and Factors Related to Physical and Sexual Violence Among Female Technical School Students of Dilla, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Girma Worku Obsie; Zeleke Girma Abeta

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Prevalence and Factors Related to Physical and Sexual Violence Among Female Technical School Students of Dilla, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Girma Worku Obsie, Zeleke Girma Abeta

Published in International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Received: 8 December 2020 Accepted: 12 January 2021 Published: 17 March 2021

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Violence against women, is directly stated as gender-centered violence, these days commonly known as a serious human rights abuse, and gradually also as a significant public health problem that concerns of all services providing of society. Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and Associated factors of sexual and physical violence among female technical school students in Dilla, South Nation Nationalities Peoples Region, Ethiopia in 2018. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out an institution based survey using self-administered anonymous questionnaire among randomly selected 167 female students. Both binary and multivariate logistic regression were used to identify associated between dependent and independents variables at p-value less than 0.05 with 95% confidence intervals. Result: From study participants those who had not sexual partner (Adjusted Odd Ratio) AOR = 3.61, 95%CI: 1.8-14.7), having parents not living together (AOR = 1.93, 95%CI: 1.54-3.26) and age group between 18-22 years (AOR=2.62, 95%CI: 1.05-6.81) were significantly associated with physically violated whereas no family support (AOR = 2.75, 95%CI: 1.67-5.34) and no married (AOR= 3.32, 95%CI: 1.21-9.13) were significantly associated with sexually violated in this academic year. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that sexual and physical violence are serious and prevailing problems among study subjects of Technical school. It is recommended that sexual and physical violence deserve need remedial action from policy makers, schools, parents, students and other concerning stakeholders are working on social works.

Published in	International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijeedu.20211001.13
Page(s)	21-25
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Physical and Sexual Violence, Prevalence, Associated Factors, Technical Students, Ethiopia

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Girma Worku Obsie, Zeleke Girma Abeta. Prevalence and Factors Related to Physical and Sexual Violence Among Female Technical School Students of Dilla, SNNPR, Ethiopia. Int J Elem Educ. 2021;10(1):21-25. doi: 10.11648/j.ijeedu.20211001.13

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Girma Worku Obsie

Department of Public Health College of Health Science, Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia
Zeleke Girma Abeta

Department of Public Health College of Medical and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

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