Prediction of domestic violence against married women in southwestern Turkey

Abstract

Attention should be given to area of residence, age of both partners at marriage, adolescent marriage, and husband characteristics during screening for domestic violence.

Magnitude and determinants of domestic violence against ever married women in Sohag, Egypt

“…Major variation between the prevalence of DV found by these studies and that reported by DHS may be partially explained by the fact that tools used for measuring DV in these studies were not comparable to the questionnaire used in DHS. Our findings agree also with DV prevalence in turkey (67.7%) [12] and Iran (62%). [13] The high rate of DV found in this study is expected in a traditional community like Sohag governorate, where men are considered superior to women and sociocultural and economic context support male authority and control over women.…”

“…Several previous studies enforced our results concerning the absence of significant relation between DV and type of the house and presence of children [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and duration of marriage. [21] although [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] found that DV was significantly associated with duration of marriage.…”

“…These results are in line with many studies. [12,17,18] Indicating major suffering of the affected woman.…”

The Effectiveness of a Domestic Violence Prevention Program in Japanese Agricultural University

“…In Nigeria, 67.7% of married women are treated violently by their husbands (Izmirli et al 2014). Turkey reports serious violence against females perpetrated by males (Uzuegbunam 2012).…”

Domestic violence against pregnant women: A prospective study in a metropolitan city, İstanbul

“…Second, the survey seems to include certain questions merely on physical and sexual violence. Nevertheless, domestic violence apparently incorporates many additional behaviors: (a) any physical violence causing actual bodily harm, from pushing, jolting, manhandling, dashing, kicking, and scragging to stabbing and shooting; (b) sexual assault in an unacceptable manner, place, and time and sexual abuse, including any other act of sexual violence; (c) economic violence to control a woman's income and/or employment and other acts to prevent the economic freedom of the female partner; (d) emotional abuse, including bullying, creating fear, blackmailing, and controlling behaviors, such as isolation of the woman from her family of birth, friends, or social life, and forcing her to stay at, or leave, the home; and (e) psychological or verbal abuse, including acts, such as insulting, making fun of personal weaknesses, using humiliating nicknames, and shouting (2)(3)(4). Hence, the present data do not reflect many forms of domestic violence, such as economic and emotional abuse.…”