TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Associations With Condom Use Among Men in Haiti
T2 - An Analysis of the Nationally Representative Demographic Health Survey
AU - Conserve, Donaldson F.
AU - Whembolua, Guy Lucien S.
AU - Surkan, Pamela J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by a training grant from the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (T32 AI007001).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Although men have substantial decision-making power regarding condom use, the majority of HIV knowledge and prevention studies in the general Haitian population have been conducted among youth and women. We investigated attitudes toward intimate partner violence, knowledge of, and use of condoms among 9493 men in Haiti using data from the 2012 nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey. Only 36% of HIV-negative and 44% of HIV-positive men reported using a condom the last time they had had sex. Logistic regression revealed that believing it was justified for a man to hit or beat his wife if she refuses to have sex with him was associated with a lower odds of condom use. The odds of using a condom during last sex was higher among men who reported knowing condoms can prevent HIV and who had been tested for HIV. Given the low rate of condom use among men in Haiti, these findings suggest that interventions promoting HIV knowledge, HIV testing, and gender-violence prevention among men may also increase condom use.
AB - Although men have substantial decision-making power regarding condom use, the majority of HIV knowledge and prevention studies in the general Haitian population have been conducted among youth and women. We investigated attitudes toward intimate partner violence, knowledge of, and use of condoms among 9493 men in Haiti using data from the 2012 nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey. Only 36% of HIV-negative and 44% of HIV-positive men reported using a condom the last time they had had sex. Logistic regression revealed that believing it was justified for a man to hit or beat his wife if she refuses to have sex with him was associated with a lower odds of condom use. The odds of using a condom during last sex was higher among men who reported knowing condoms can prevent HIV and who had been tested for HIV. Given the low rate of condom use among men in Haiti, these findings suggest that interventions promoting HIV knowledge, HIV testing, and gender-violence prevention among men may also increase condom use.
KW - HIV
KW - Haiti
KW - condom use
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - men
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U2 - 10.1177/0886260514564065
DO - 10.1177/0886260514564065
M3 - Article
C2 - 25542524
AN - SCOPUS:84956884323
VL - 31
SP - 989
EP - 1006
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
SN - 0886-2605
IS - 6
ER -