Assessment of Factors influencing Domestic Violence among married Women: Cross-sectional study at Kasralainy, Family Medicine clinic

Abstract

Background: Violence in personal relationships is widespread around the world. It has detrimental physiological and psychological impacts. Physical assault may leave a more noticeable trace, but psychological harm is more challenging to explain and share aimed to find out the prevalence of domestic violence and different types of it and to identify the various risk factors for violence.

Methods: Screening for domestic violence and inviting women who identified as abused by an intimate partner to participate in the study, assessment of socioeconomic status, taking a personal and medical history, evaluation of domestic violence exposure. 325 participants, fulfilled the inclusion criteria, were evaluated of domestic violence exposure by using the valid Arabic version of Composite Abuse Scale.118 participants were identified to be abused by their intimate partner, had Composite Abuse Scale total score of 7 or more, were invited to a structured interview. It included personal and medical history, assessment of socioeconomic status

Results: The study found a 36.3% overall prevalence of intimate relationship violence in the group that was the subject of the study. the highest form was psychological abuse, followed by physical one then severe combined abuse including sexual abuse items. However, least of them were exposed to harassment.

Conclusions: The present study hereby concludes that combination of physical and emotional violence is the most common type of domestic violence, which has a strong association with literacy status of both women and their husbands.