Annah Vimbai Bengesai

Biographic Data

ID1222381
NAMEAnnah Vimbai Bengesai
GIVEN NAMESAnnah Vimbai
FAMILY NAMEBengesai
SIGNATUREBENGESAI A V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0002-2711-8530
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Violence Against Women and Girls in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, Lana Clara ChikhunguARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2025

    Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a complex social problem affecting many women globally. In Zimbabwe, intimate partner violence (IPV) and child marriages remain persistent public health problems with detrimental effects on the health and well-being of women and girls. Statistics show that Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of IPV and child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. Given this background, this paper systematically reviewed publi…

  • Zimbabwean Women’s Attitudes Toward Wife-Beating and Associated Factors

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, Sybert MuterekoARTICLESAGE Open2024

    This paper sought to identify distinct classes of women who endorse wife-beating and the determinants of such justification to broaden current knowledge of the correlates of intimate partner violence in Zimbabwe. We drew on survey data from the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) and restricted our analytical sample to 2,966 currently partnered women. To classify women’s responses into patterns of tolerant attitudes, we used latent…

  • Childhood stunting and subsequent educational outcomes

    Open AccessLateef Babatunde Amusa, Annah Vimbai Bengesai et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To examine the association between childhood stunting and grade completion (as educational outcome) in South Africa. Design: Longitudinal study. Data were obtained using the National Income Dynamics Study over five waves (2008 to 2017). Children were tracked at wave 1 in 2008 until wave 5 in 2017 to determine their total years of schooling. We controlled for time-variant and time-varying confounding with a marginal structural model to …

  • Predicting patterns of persistence at a South African university

    Open AccessVino Paideya, Annah Vimbai BengesaiARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Purpose The emerging field of educational data mining provides an opportunity to process large-scale data emerging from higher education institutions (HEIs) into reliable knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing persistence amongst students enrolled in a Chemistry major at a South African university using enrolment data. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 511 students registered for a Chemistry major…

  • Female autonomy and intimate partner violence

    Annah Vimbai Bengesai, H T Abdullah KhanARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    Intimate partner violence is a persistent social problem in Zimbabwe and has been linked to patriarchal attitudes that promote the superiority of men in marital relationships while denying women agency. Using 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey data, we examined the influence of female autonomy on intimate partner violence. Our analysis was restricted to 2847 women who were in some form of sexual union. Consistent with earlier studies, ou…

  • The Association Between Women Empowerment and Emotional Violence in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, Evelyn DereraARTICLESAGE Open2021Cited by: 1References: 62

    This study examined the relationship between women's empowerment and different dimensions of emotional violence in Zimbabwe using cluster analysis and logistic regression. We used data from the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey, a nationally representative household study of fertility, health, and mortality indicators among women aged 15 to 49 years. Our sample consisted of 2,966 currently partnered women at the time of the survey. Our …

  • The Association between Family Structure Changes and High School Completion in South Africa

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, Nompumelelo NzimandeARTICLESocial Sciences2020Cited by: 1References: 38

    Over the past few years, family structures have been dramatically transformed, yet limited research from South Africa has assessed the effect on children's developmental outcomes. Using data from the National Income Dynamics Study, we aim to contribute to the literature by examining the relationship between family structure disruption and high school completion in South Africa. Our sample consisted of 1649 young people who were aged 12, 13 and 14…

  • The Association Between Sexual Behaviours and Initiation of Post-Secondary Education in South Africa

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, H T Abdullah Khan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2019

    Although young people in South Africa are growing up in an era where their socioeconomic circumstances are seemingly better than those of their parents’ generation, they face greater risks in their trajectory to adulthood. This is mainly because the environment in which they are making sexual decisions is also rapidly evolving. Currently, South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the world among young people aged 15–24. This stud…

  • Effect of Early Sexual Debut on High School Completion in South Africa

    Open AccessAnnah Vimbai Bengesai, H T Abdullah Khan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2018

    Early sexual debut is of major concern because it is a correlate for health and economic shocks experienced in adulthood. In South Africa, this concern has provided impetus for research directed at the HIV and AIDS epidemic, teenage pregnancy and the effect of adolescent sexual behaviour on persistence in school. Of interest to the present study is high school completion, which is a well-established empirical barometer of adult socioeconomic oppo…