Overview
Type: Relationship power/ control
Citation: Pallitto, C. C.; O'Campo, P. Community level effects of gender inequality on intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy in Colombia: testing the feminist perspective. Social Science and Medicine. 2005;60(10):2205-16
Use of Scale: Measure, Develop/ validate
Level of Generality: Individual
# of Items Reported: 4
Availability: Full
Theme: Gender/social norms, SRH/HIV, Violence
Demographics
Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Country: Colombia
Gender: Female
Urban / Rural: nr
Ethnicity: NR
Age Group: Can't tell
Age Range: Mean age: 28
Scale Information
# of Subscales: NR
Subscale Name(s): NR
Direction and Meaning:
Response Range: NR
Internal Consistency: NA
Internal Consistency by Subgroup: NA
Test-retest Reliability: NA
Sample Items: women's ability to refuse sex with her husband under a set of hypothetical circumstances. The hypothetical conditions include husband having an STD, husband being involved with another woman, respondent recently having given birth, or respondent being tired or not in the mood for sex.
Items
- Household decision-making
- final say on decisions about large and small household purchases
- personal decision-making
- final say about decisions related to their own health care and visits to family and friends
- sexual decision-making
- ability to refuse sex with her husband under a set of hypothetical circumstances
- husband having an STD
- husband being involved with another woman
- respondent recently having given birth
- respondent being tired or not in the mood for sex
- ability to refuse sex with her husband under a set of hypothetical circumstances