Table 6 SASA! impact on women’s past year experience/men’s past year perpetration of physical IPV, after adjustment for potential mediators
Mediator adjusted for: | aRRa (95 % CI) for SASA! impact on women’s experience of IPV | % change in aRR after addition of mediator | aRRa (95 % CI) for SASA! impact on men’s perpetration of IPV | % change in aRR after addition of mediator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 875 | n = 1108 | |||
Model without mediators | 0.44 (0.30–0.64) | N/A | 0.45 (0.30–0.70) | N/A |
COMMUNITY LEVEL | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Community responses to prevent violence: |  |  |  |  |
  Okay for others in community to intervene if they know IPV is occurring | 0.44 (0.29–0.68) | 0 % | 0.66 (0.34–1.27) | 38 % |
  People who have witnessed/heard violence who have responded appropriately | 0.43 (0.30–0.63) | −2 % | 0.52 (0.31–86) | 13 % |
  Norms around violence: |  |  |  |  |
  Acceptable for a man to use violence against his partner | 0.83 (0.50–1.38) | 70 % | 0.97 (0.40–2.39) | 95 % |
  Norms around women’s control over sex: |  |  |  |  |
  Acceptable for a woman to refuse sex with her partner | 0.57 (0.34–0.96) | 23 % | 0.41 (0.26–0.64) | −7 % |
  Okay for a woman to ask her husband to use a condom | 0.62 (0.39–0.99) | 32 % | 0.56 (0.30–1.02) | 20 % |
  Broader gender norms: |  |  |  |  |
  Others in community would respect a man who made decisions jointly with his wife | 0.64 (0.40–1.01) | 36 % | 0.58(0.34–1.00) | 24 % |
  Man’s role to decide if his wife can work | 0.70 (0.48–1.03) | 46 % | 0.82 (0.42–1.59) | 67 % |
RELATIONSHIP LEVEL (PARTNERED IN PAST YEAR) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Communication: |  |  |  |  |
  Discuss things that happen in day | 0.51 (0.35–0.74) | 13 % | 0.46 (0.30–0.69) | 2 % |
  Discuss worries | 0.51 (0.36–0.73) | 13 % | 0.47 (0.31–0.70) | 4 % |
  Discuss what both like during sex | 0.53 (0.36–0.77) | 16 % | 0.49 (0.32–0.75) | 7 % |
  Appreciate work partner does around house | 0.46 (0.32–0.65) | 4 % | 0.48 (0.32–0.72) | 5 % |
  Appreciate work partner does outside house | 0.45 (0.31–0.65) | 2 % | 0.48 (0.32–0.71) | 5 % |
  Power dynamics: |  |  |  |  |
  Joint decision making | 0.52 (0.37–0.74) | 14 % | 0.49 (0.34–0.72) | 7 % |
  Man helps around house | 0.47 (0.32–0.67) | 5 % | 0.49 (0.32–0.73) | 7 % |
  Woman refused a job because husband doesn’t want her to work | 0.48 (0.34–0.70) | 7 % | 0.51 (0.34–0.76) | 11 % |
  Woman participated in deciding how household finances spent | 0.47 (0.34–0.66) | 5 % | 0.47 (0.32–0.70) | 4 % |
  Additional sex partners: |  |  |  |  |
  Concurrent partners | - | - | 0.49 (0.34–0.73) | 7 % |
  Male partner often suspicious that female partner is unfaithful | 0.54 (0.38–0.76) | 18 % | 0.57 (0.40–0.81) | 22 % |
INDIVIDUALS (PARTNERED IN PAST YEAR) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Attitudes around violence: |  |  |  |  |
  Acceptable for a man to use violence against his partner | 0.53 (0.36–0.80) | 16 % | 0.68 (0.43–1.09) | 42 % |
  Okay for a woman to tell others if she is experiencing violence | 0.46 (0.32–0.67) | 4 % | 0.57 (0.37–0.90) | 22 % |
  Attitudes towards women’s control over sex: |  |  |  |  |
  Acceptable for a woman to refuse sex with her partner | 0.54 (0.37–0.77) | 18 % | 0.48 (0.31–0.73) | 5 % |
  Okay for a woman to ask her husband to use a condom | 0.51 (0.34–0.76) | 13 % | 0.47 (0.31–0.72) | 4 % |
  Broader gender attitudes: |  |  |  |  |
  Others in community would respect a man who made decisions jointly with his wife | 0.53 (0.36–0.78) | 16 % | 0.54 (0.36–0.83) | 16 % |
  Man’s role to decide if his wife can work | 0.51 (0.35–0.72) | 13 % | 0.58 (0.37–0.90) | 24 % |
  Behaviours: |  |  |  |  |
  Drunk at least once a month | - | - | 0.47 (0.33–0.69) | 4 % |