Tanzanian Couples’ Perspectives on Gender Equity, Relationship Power, and Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the RESPECT Study

Table 3

Men's and women's attitudes as predictors of women's IPV report, multivariable logistic regression analysisa.

	Men's attitudes		Women's attitudes		Couple discordance^d
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Is a husband ever justified in beating his wife?
Yes^b	1.34	0.95, 1.88	1.31	0.93, 1.85	1.01	0.75, 1.37
Is any kind of violence justified if a woman refuses sex?
Yes^b	1.06	0.76, 1.47	2.29	1.65, 3.17*	1.35	0.99, 1.79
Who has more say about having sex?
Wife^c	1.13	0.60, 2.16	1.31	0.70, 2.45	1.06	0.78, 1.45
Both^c	0.93	0.66, 1.30	0.70	0.50, 0.98**
Who has more power in your relationship?
Wife^c	1.40	0.73, 2.66	0.91	0.28, 2.94	1.20	0.89, 1.69
Both^c	1.33	0.84, 2.11	0.43	0.21, 0.89**

^aThe adjusted model assesses the relationship between each independent variable and IPV, adjusting for the other independent variables in the model and confounders-age, socioeconomic position and education (see Measures).
^bReference group is never justified.
^cReference group is husband.
^dReference group is concordance in responses.
^∗𝑃<0.0125.
^∗∗𝑃<0.05.