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- Title
Factors affecting the views and experiences of women living in the city centre of Manisa, Turkey, regarding domestic violence.
- Authors
Özpınar, Saliha; Horasan, Gönül Din¸c; Baydur, Hakan; Canbay, Tülin
- Abstract
Domestic violence against women is an important social and public health problem worldwide resulting from unequal power relationships between men and women. The purpose of the present cross-sectional descriptive study was to determine the factors affecting the views and experiences of women living in the city centre of Manisa, Turkey, regarding domestic violence. The data were collected from a representative sample of women (n = 873) in 2012. The sociodemographic questionnaire and the World Health Organization's Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence AgainstWomenwere used for data collection. The study results revealed that of the women, 14.8% were exposed to physical violence, 7.9% to sexual violence, 20.2% to emotional violence/abuse and 11.2% to economic violence/abuse within the last 12 months. Lower income level, lower social status, lower educational level, unemployment, being exposed to parental violence during childhood and being married to husbands exposed to parental violence during childhood were associated risk factors with domestic violence. The study results indicate that domestic violence against women is a common phenomenon in Manisa.
- Subjects
TURKEY; FAMILY violence risk factors; CONFIDENCE intervals; FAMILIES; DOMESTIC violence; INCOME; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL classes; UNEMPLOYMENT; LOGISTIC regression analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DISEASE prevalence; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; CLUSTER sampling
- Publication
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 5, p466
- ISSN
1448-7527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1071/PY15032