Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study

Table 3 Acceptability of physical violence (all participants)

	Baseline		Endline		Unadjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI) ¹	P	Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI) ²	P
	n	%⁴	n³	%⁴
Physical violence against a woman is acceptable if:
She goes out without telling anyone	58	8.5	39	4.9	0.51 (0.33–0.79)	0.003	0.51 (0.31–0.81)	0.005
She neglects the house or children	65	9.6	52	6.5	0.64 (0.43–0.96)	0.030	0.62 (0.41–0.97)	0.038
She argues with her husband or family member	36	5.3	45	5.6	1.07 (0.67–1.70)	0.781	1.12 (0.67–1.86)	0.660
She refuses to have sex with her husband	18	2.6	20	2.5	0.99 (0.51–1.93)	0.975	0.95 (0.46–1.97)	0.886
She does not cook food properly	35	5.1	30	3.8	0.71 (0.42–1.18)	0.188	0.74 (0.42–1.31)	0.307
Her husband suspects her of being unfaithful	72	10.6	58	7.3	0.57 (0.39–0.84)	0.004	0.60 (0.39–0.90)	0.015
She becomes disrespectful of her husband/in-laws	42	6.2	42	5.3	0.83 (0.53–1.32)	0.439	0.96 (0.58–1.58)	0.880
Violence is unacceptable in all of the above situations	504	74.3	661	82.9	1.87 (1.42–2.46)	< 0.001	1.87 (1.39–2.52)	< 0.001
Total respondents	679	100	797	1000	–	–	–

¹ Adjusted for clustering by village with random effect term only
² Adjusted for literacy, income regularity, socio-economic disadvantage and clustering by village
³ We excluded 64 cases from an interviewer who had misunderstood questions on the acceptability of violence
⁴ Proportions may not add to up 100 due to missing data

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