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- Title
Domestic Violence: A Community based cross sectional study among rural married females in North West India.
- Authors
Gupta, Rajiv K.; Kumari, Rashmi; Singh, Parveen; Langer, Bhavna
- Abstract
Violence against women a social evil in the society despite a lot of talk of women empowerment. Assessment of burden in terms of prevalence will go a long way in planning the services for those affected by domestic violence. To find the prevalence of domestic violence and associated risk factors among married females in a rural area of Jammu. This community based cross-sectional study was conducted among rural married females using a structured and pretested questionnaire. Data was analysed using simple proportions, chi-square test and logistic regression. 171/301(56.6%) of the respondents reported some form of the domestic violence. Psychological, physical and sexual violence rates were found to be 32.16%, 9.9% and 2.33% respectively. A statistically significant association was found with variables like literacy, type of family, family income, sex of children etc. Relatively high levels of domestic violence in this rural setting calls for a multidisciplinary approach involving improvement of literacy levels among females, creating awareness about legal aid and screening the victims at primary health centres to mitigate this problem.
- Subjects
INDIA; VIOLENCE in the community; DOMESTIC violence; VIOLENCE against women; RISK of violence; RAPE
- Publication
JK Science, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0972-1177
- Publication type
Article