Differences in the acceptance of wife abuse among ethnic minority Garo and Santal and mainstream Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh

• Rabiul Karim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabiul Karim, Katarina Swahnberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Rabiul.Karim@lnu.se

  Affiliations Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6293-7101

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• Tanzima Zohra Habib ,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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• Sadequl Arefin ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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• Hafijur Rahman ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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• Suchona Rahman ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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• Katarina Swahnberg

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabiul Karim, Katarina Swahnberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

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