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Citation

Zarei M, Rasolabadi M, Gharibi F, Seidi J. Electron. Physician 2017; 9(11): 5746-5753.

Affiliation

Ph.D. of Nursing, Assistant Professor, Clinical Care Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Mehr Publishing Group)

DOI

10.19082/5746

PMID

29403614

PMCID

PMC5783123

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Violence against women is considered as one of the social problems of all countries in the world. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of violence against married women referring to health centers, and determining its related factors in Sanandaj, Iran, in 2015.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 700 married women referred to health centers in Sanandaj, Iran in 2015. A researcher made questionnaire was used to collect data. To perform sampling, the city was divided into 5 regions and from each region, one health center was selected randomly. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18 and using descriptive statistics, independent-samples t-test, chi-square test and ANOVA. Significance level of.05 was considered.

RESULTS: The results of this study showed that all women in the study had been subjected to violence at least once. In 11.7% of cases, the violence was moderate and severe. A total of 9.6% had been subjected to physical violence, 42.2% to verbal and psychological violence, 52.4% to sexual violence and 53.4% to economic violence. It was a statistically significant correlation between violence and following variables; education (p=0.0001), occupation (p=0.0001), history of domestic violence in family (p=0.0001), and having a boy in the family (p=0.0001). There was no statistically significant relationship between the number of girls in the family and violence against women (p=0.19).

CONCLUSION: Although Physical violence against women has decreased, other forms of violence including; verbal, sexual and economic were used against women. It seems that the problem of violence against women would not be solved without improving women's socio-economic status.


Language: en

Keywords

Domestic violence; Family violence; Spouse abuse; Violence

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