Citation

Alqahtani M. Eur. Psychiatry 2016; 33(Suppl): S775-S776.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2325

PMID

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Abstract

This study aims to discover women's attitudes toward domestic violence and their determinants, and explores the types of violence among women attending psychology clinic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.A cross-sectional study among married women who visited the psychology clinics. Study was carried out in March 2013. A total of 356 women were interviewed.Our study indicates that descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to measure relations between attitudes towards domestic violence and several variables. Many women (66%) reported different types of domestic violence against them in the last six months. The most common types of reported violence were verbal abuse (73%) and emotional abuse (47.5%) were the most violence reported, followed with several non-physical violence (35%). Whereas physical violence were reported among (11%) of the sample.The study shows frequent types of domestic violence against women. Increasing women's authorization, mainly providing the proper education about her right, may protect women from such violent behavior in the future.

Language: en