Prevalence and Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Marivan County, Iran

Abstract

This paper reports on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as individual, socioeconomic, and family function characteristics associated with IPV among women attending public health services in Marivan County, Iran. Multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 770 women to participate in the study. This descriptive, cross-sectional study took place from May to November 2009. The majority of the women (79.7 %) had experienced psychological IPV, followed by physical IPV (60 %) and sexual IPV (32.9 %). There was a positive significant relationship between IPV and education level of women and the level of religious commitment in both women and spouses. Spouse's smoking, addiction to drugs, mental illness, and weakness in religious persuasion were statistically significant predictors of IPVand accounted for 36 % of the variation. This correlational study suggests that educational programs regarding these risk factors and their associations with the outcome of IPV should be designed by healthcare providers and implemented not only in healthcare facilities, but presented from local media. Public health services and healthcare facilities can play an important role in the detection of IPV and improve responses to victims by establishing education centers and informing women of the best ways they can confront this deleterious problem.

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“…Iranian women are more likely to experience the verbal and psychological abuse (Abadi et al 2012). Likewise, Nouri et al (2012) reported that the majority of the women (79.7%) have experienced psychological IPV, followed by physical IPV (60%), and sexual IPV (32.9%) in Marivan City, Iran.…”

“…To understand the seriousness of this problem, it must be considered that the female population constitutes 49.7% of the total population in Iran (The World Bank 2017), so the consequences of this violence affect the whole society. In addition, the results of quantitative research shows that domestic violence has increased in Iran (Vakili et al 2010;Nouri et al 2012). According to a national survey carried out on IPV against women, in 28 provinces of Iran, at least one act of serious physical violence was reported by 66% of married women.…”

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“…Intimate Partner Violence has been identified as a significant public health problem [Nouri et al, 2012]. It is a social and health problem in all societies and cultures all over the globe [Al-Badayneh, 2012].…”

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