Three Essays Analyzing the Impact of Community and Neighborhood Factors on Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Uganda
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description: The overall aim of the proposed dissertation is to enhance understanding of the impact of the community and neighborhood in preventing violence against women, and how women who have been displaced from their communities may be at increased risk of violence. This three-paper dissertation utilized secondary data sources from two studies of IPV against women in Uganda: the SASA! Study and the Ugandan Demographic and Health Study (UDHS). The first paper used quantitative data from the baseline of the SASA! study (a cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based intervention to prevent violence against women and HIV/AIDS, called SASA!), a representative sample of community members in two districts in Kampala. This study hypothesized that women who live in neighborhoods with higher levels of collective efficacy to prevent IPV would be at decreased risk of experiencing male-perpetrated IPV. Using a multi-level logistics model, there was no significant neighborhood effect on intimate partner violence related to collective efficacy or otherwise. However, women with higher levels of self-efficacy to prevent IPV against others were significantly less likely to experience physical IPV themselves. Other fixed effect factors, including younger age, no education, higher number of children, having no electricity, not earning an income, and partner's daily alcohol use significantly predicted women's risk of IPV. Potential research and practice implications will be discussed. The second paper utilized secondary analyses of the impact of displacement on IPV against women from the Demographic and Health Survey, a representative community sample of women throughout Uganda. Using propensity score matching, this study attempts to determine the causal effect of displacement on women's experiences of intimate partner violence. Given that assumptions hold, the results indicate that women who are displaced in northern Uganda are less likely to experience IPV than if they had not bee…
abstract: The overall aim of the proposed dissertation is to enhance understanding of the impact of the community and neighborhood in preventing violence against women, and how women who have been displaced from their communities may be at increased risk of violence. This three-paper dissertation utilized secondary data sources from two studies of IPV against women in Uganda: the SASA! Study and the Ugandan Demographic and Health Study (UDHS). The first paper used quantitative data from the baseline of the SASA! study (a cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based intervention to prevent violence against women and HIV/AIDS, called SASA!), a representative sample of community members in two districts in Kampala. This study hypothesized that women who live in neighborhoods with higher levels of collective efficacy to prevent IPV would be at decreased risk of experiencing male-perpetrated IPV. Using a multi-level logistics model, there was no significant neighborhood effect on intimate partner violence related to collective efficacy or otherwise. However, women with higher levels of self-efficacy to prevent IPV against others were significantly less likely to experience physical IPV themselves. Other fixed effect factors, including younger age, no education, higher number of children, having no electricity, not earning an income, and partner's daily alcohol use significantly predicted women's risk of IPV. Potential research and practice implications will be discussed. The second paper utilized secondary analyses of the impact of displacement on IPV against women from the Demographic and Health Survey, a representative community sample of women throughout Uganda. Using propensity score matching, this study attempts to determine the causal effect of displacement on women's experiences of intimate partner violence. Given that assumptions hold, the results indicate that women who are displaced in northern Uganda are less likely to experience IPV than if they had not bee…
author: Carlson, Catherine E.
language: English
keywords: Social service, Public health
date published: 2013
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:44:31Z
provider: Columbia University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Columbia University

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value: 10.7916/D8PK0PBV