Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Abortion in Nepal: A Pooled Analysis of Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys (2011 and 2016)

Table 5

Logistic regression analysis of the association between abortion and various forms of IPV in Nepal (2011-2016).

Types of IPV^#	Categories	Crude OR (95% CI)	value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	value
Any physical IPV ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.014^†
	Yes	1.25 (0.91, 1.72)	0.170	1.54 (1.09, 2.19)
Any sexual IPV ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.136
	Yes	1.17 (0.79, 1.75)	0.431	1.39 (0.90, 2.13)
Any emotional IPV ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.435
	Yes	1.17 (0.81, 1.70)	0.405	1.17 (0.79, 1.74)
Any less severe physical IPV ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.025^†
	Yes	1.21 (0.88, 1.66)	0.252	1.50 (1.05, 2.13)
Any severe physical IPV ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.026^†
	Yes	1.36 (0.89, 2.09)	0.235	1.68 (1.06, 2.64)
Any of the above ()	No	1.00		1.00	0.011^†
	Yes	1.16 (0.86, 1.56)	0.324	1.38 (1.01, 1.90)

value obtained from the chi-squared test. Each type of violence was comprised of an independent regression model. ^†Significant at . ^#Adjusted for the following covariates: survey year, ecological region, household wealth, woman’s education, husband’s education, ethnicity, age, and number of living children, women’s decision making on own health care, and husband’s alcohol drinking habit.