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Table 3 Perpetrators* of past-year forced sex among those who experienced sexual violence at baseline and follow-up, respectively, by intervention status

From: Sexual violence among adolescent girls and young women in Malawi: a cluster-randomized controlled implementation trial of empowerment self-defense training

 

Intervention

Control

 

Baseline (n = 452)

n (%)

Follow-Up (n = 194)

n (%)

p-valuea

Baseline (n = 423)

n (%)

Follow-Up (n = 268)

n (%)

p-valuea

All Students

 Boyfriend

203 (44.9)

90 (46.4)

0.46

188 (44.4)

117 (43.7)

0.75

 Friend

51 (11.3)

30 (15.5)

0.10

41 (9.7)

33 (12.3)

0.33

 Relative

95 (21.0)

19 (9.8)

0.01

79 (18.7)

57 (21.3)

0.47

 Neighbor

37 (8.2)

23 (11.9)

0.15

46 (10.9)

13 (4.9)

0.01

 Known Adult

24 (5.3)

10 (5.2)

0.95

29 (6.9)

16 (6.0)

0.66

 Stranger

32 (7.1)

21 (10.8)

0.10

28 (6.6)

28 (10.5)

0.19

 Other

10 (2.2)

**

0.19

12(2.8)

**

0.21

Primary School Only

 Boyfriend

103 (35.6)

45 (36.6)

0.57

103 (34.5)

74 (45.4)

0.05

 Friend

32 (11.1)

24 (19.5)

0.02

32 (10.7)

26 (16.0)

0.15

 Relative

75 (26.0)

11 (8.9)

0.001

62 (20.7)

26 (16.0)

0.08

 Neighbor

25 (8.7)

18 (14.6)

0.08

39 (13.0)

5 (3.1)

< 0.001

 Known Adult

20 (6.9)

6 (4.9)

0.59

25 (8.4)

12 (7.4)

0.68

 Stranger

29 (10.0)

18 (14.6)

0.14

27 (9.0)

18 (11.0)

0.63

 Other

**

**

0.53

11 (3.7)

**

0.12

Secondary School Only

 Boyfriend

100 (61.4)

45 (63.4)

0.61

85 (68.6)

43 (41.0)

0.004

 Friend

19 (11.7)

6 (8.5)

0.54

9 (7.3)

7 (6.7)

0.90

 Relative

20 (12.3)

8 (11.3)

0.95

17 (13.7)

31 (29.5)

0.001

 Neighbor

12 (7.4)

5 (7.0)

0.99

7 (5.7)

8 (7.6)

0.42

 Known Adult

4 (2.5)

4 (5.6)

0.14

4 (3.2)

4 (3.8)

0.82

 Stranger

**

3 (4.2)

0.37

**

10 (9.5)

0.03

 Other

5 (3.1)

**

< 0.001

**

**

0.32

  1. boldface illustrates statistical significance at p < 0.05
  2. *not mutually exclusive
  3. **cell with < 2% suppressed
  4. ageneralized linear models with binomial distribution and logit link and school-correlated variance