@article{ref1,
title="Intimate partner violence against pregnant Jordanian women at the time of CoViD-19 pandemic's quarantine",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2021",
author="Damra, Jalal and Obeisat, Salwa and Hamaideh, Shaher and Abujilban, Sanaa and Mrayan, Lina",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In Jordan, women experience considerable levels of different types of violence. The emerging data from different countries indicate that intimate partner violence (IPV)  has intensified since the COVID-19 outbreak. The main purpose of the current study  is to find out whether there is any difference in the incidence of IPV during and  before the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and whether any sociodemographical factors  are related to the incidence of IPV against pregnant women during quarantine. A  cross-sectional, correlational design was in this study. The snowball sampling  technique was adopted to select the participants, which produced a nonrepresentative  sample of 215 pregnant women. The participants completed the Arabic version of the  World Health Organization's Domestic Violence Questionnaire Screening Tool (DVQST). We found that women were exposed to different types of IPV before and during the  quarantine. The most prevalent form of IPV was control and humiliation (n 172, 80%)  and the least prevalent was sexual violence ((n 33, 15.3%), (n 24, 11.2%),  respectively). However, there were statistically significant lower DVQST scores  during the COVID-19 quarantine than before the quarantine. All types of IPV are  significantly correlated with each other and with relationship problems (marital  conflict, verbal fighting, understanding each other). While the findings are not  generalizable to the general population of pregnant women in Jordan because the  sample consisted only of women of high socioeconomic status due to the use of a  nonprobability sampling technique, national campaigns should be developed and  implemented in order to reduce IPV and change community behaviors and attitudes  toward violence against women. It is also recommended that policymakers develop  plans to help pregnant women during quarantine by, for example, training care  providers on how to access vulnerable women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260520984259",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520984259"
}