title: Violence in childhood, attitudes about partner violence, and partner violence perpetration among men in Vietnam.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We assess the association of men's exposure to violence in childhood-witnessing physical violence against one's mother and being hit or beaten by a parent or adult relative-with their attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. We explore whether men's perpetration of IPV mediates this relationship and whether men's attitudes about IPV mediate any relationship of exposure to violence in childhood with perpetration of IPV.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five hundred twenty-two married men 18-51 years in Vietnam were interviewed. Multivariate regressions for ordinal and binary responses were estimated to assess these relationships.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with men experiencing neither form of violence in childhood, men experiencing either or both had higher adjusted odds of reporting more reasons to hit a wife (aOR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.03-2.00 and aOR, 1.66; 95% CI, 1.05-2.64, respectively). Men's lifetime perpetration of IPV accounted fully for these associations. Compared with men experiencing neither form of violence in childhood, men experiencing either or both had higher adjusted odds of ever perpetrating IPV (aOR, 3.28; 95% CI, 2.15-4.99 and aOR, 4.56; 95% CI, 2.90-7.17, respectively). Attitudes about IPV modestly attenuated these associations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Addressing violence in childhood is needed to change men's risk of perpetrating IPV and greater subsequent justification of it.
authors.affiliation: Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: kyount@emory.edu.
authors.forename: Kathryn M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Yount
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Huyen Tran
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Pham
authors.affiliation: Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP), Hanoi, Vietnam.
authors.forename: Tran Hung
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Minh
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Kathleen H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.affiliation: Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, Family Health International 360, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Sidney Ruth
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Schuler
authors.affiliation: Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP), Hanoi, Vietnam; Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hoang Tu
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Anh
authors.affiliation: Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: VanderEnde
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Kramer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D014744:Vietnam; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Family violence; Men’s health; Vietnam