Metrics details. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence, patterns and correlates of IPV among clients of an adult Family Planning clinic in Conakry, Guinea. Half of the IPV positive women were current users of family planning The odds of experiencing IPV was higher in women with secondary or vocational level of education than those with higher level of education AOR: 8. Women residing in other communes of Conakry AOR: 5.
Intimate partners perpetrate more than a third of female homicides, worldwide [ 5 ]. Survivors of IPV are less likely to use reproductive health services [ 6 ] and more likely to experience adverse reproductive health outcomes such as low birth weight infants, pre-term delivery and neonatal death [ 1 ]. The prevalence of IPV among women has already been documented in different settings using population based studies [ 7 β 10 ], women living with HIV [ 11 , 12 ] and those whom are pregnant [ 13 , 14 ].
Additionally, previous studies have examined the use of contraceptives among women who experienced IPV [ 17 , 18 ]. However, very little empirical data exist on the experience of IPV in women in West Africa, generally, and Guinea, specifically.
Furthermore, these data are typically gathered in the context of violent political conflict and do not capture the contraceptive pattern of survivors. By examining IPV experience among a sample of family planning clients, we hope to better understand characteristics of women experiencing violence in this population and their preferred patterns of contraception.
In this study, we report on: 1 the sociodemographic characteristics of IPV among family planning clients, 2 the types of IPV experienced by family planning clients and, 3 factors associated with types of IPV among clients.
