Domestic violence against women: a crossectional study in rural area of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India

Jawarkar, Ajay K.; Shemar, Himani; Wasnik, Vinod R.; Chavan, Manisha S.

doi:10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20161937

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“…Out of 216 victims, 50% (108) were physically assaulted and 50% (108) were sexually assaulted which was more than that found in the study done by Jawarkar et al 12 in which 40.25% study subjects reported physical, emotional, or sexual violence in their lifetime or in recent past and prevalence of domestic violence (37.2%) as reported in NFHS-3 (2006), and is less than the prevalence (68%) reported in the study conducted by Khapre et al 13 in rural area Sawangi in Wardha district (Table 3). 4…”

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confidence: 68%

Psychiatry Disorders and Sociodemographic Profile of the Victims of Assault Attending the Teaching Hospital—Cross-Sectional Study

Bijjal

Iti

Ganiger

et al. 2022

Journal of Psychosexual Health

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Background: According to World Health Organization, proportion of women experiencing either physical or sexual violence ranges between 15% and 17%. In India, one-third of women population in 15 to 49 age group experiences sexual assault at least once in their life, predisposing them to develop psychiatric disorders. Aims and Objectives: To assess prevalence of psychiatry disorders among victims of assault attending tertiary care center. Methodology: It is a retrospective, record-based study which was conducted among 216 victims of assault attending one-stop center. Study was started after obtaining Institutional Ethical Committee clearance and permissions from concerned authorities and confidentiality was maintained throughout the study. Data was analyzed by frequency, proportion, and chi-square tests using SPSS version 16. Results: Out of 216 victims, 50% were physically assaulted and 50% were sexually assaulted. Among 108 sexual assault cases, 81.5% victims were raped, 2.7% were sexually harassed, 1.9% was sexually abused, and 13.9% children were sexually abused. A total of 30.1% had adjustment disorder, 11.6% had dysthymia, 8.3% had mild depression, 5.6% had moderate depression, 0.5% had obsessive-compulsive disorder, 0.5% had psychosis, and 43.5% did not have any psychiatry disorder. Conclusion: Majority of the sexually assaulted victims belonged to age group 16 to 20 years and had adjustment disorder, whereas physically assaulted victims belonged to age group above 36 years and had dysthymia and depression. Special services like medical care, counseling, legal aid, and so on should be provided to victims free of charge. Awareness and sensitization programs should be done through active community participation for the welfare of children and women.

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confidence: 68%

Psychiatry Disorders and Sociodemographic Profile of the Victims of Assault Attending the Teaching Hospital—Cross-Sectional Study

Bijjal

Iti

Ganiger

et al. 2022

Journal of Psychosexual Health

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“…The results of the study in India found that the most common type of violence reported was physical violence. The most common cause of domestic violence reported Empowering Midwives and Obstetric Nurses in our study was financial problems followed by influence under alcohol [32]. As many as 60% of women who reported having been threatened with violence in Uganda, but few reported acts of violence that had been experienced.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Pregnant women in Bali experience several forms of physical violence by their husbands, for example: beatings on the stomach, breasts and genitals which have a direct negative impact on their pregnancy [19]. In other words, the act of DV especially physical violence against pregnant women, increases the negative risk during pregnancy by 2 times [3,4,8,17,19,25,[32][33][34][35][36]. The main health or psychological problems faced by pregnant women especially poor appetite, easily tired/ feeling tired, frequent headaches, sleep disturbances and tired/tired all the time, had thought of committing suicide and thought of ending life [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Domestic Violence in Pregnant Women and Their Types. Case Study in Bali, Indonesia

Rahyani¹,

Mahayati²,

Darmapatni³

et al. 2021

Empowering Midwives and Obstetric Nurses

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The island of Bali, as part of the Republic of Indonesia, is predominantly Hindu and generally follows a patrilineal kinship system. There is a link between the patrilineal kinship system and incidents of violence against women. The purpose of this paper is to describe the incidence of domestic violence /DV that has been experienced by pregnant women in the last 12 months in Bali. The study design was a mixed method, namely quantitative-qualitative. The research samples were pregnant women in the third trimester in the Pedungan Traditional Village area in Denpasar City (31 people) and the Nongan Traditional Village in Karangasem Regency (33 people). Data collection was carried out in 2015 from June to August. Forms of domestic violence incidents experienced by pregnant women in the last 12 months were more pregnant women in Nongan Village experiencing sexual abuse (3 people /9.09% vs. 2 people / 6.45%)), economic abuse incidents (8 people /24.24% vs. 2 people/6.45%) compared to pregnant women in Pedungan Village. History of DV in the form of physical violence, social violence and emotional violence. The negative impact felt by pregnant women who are victims of DV, especially psychosomatic complaints, even to the point where they intend to suicide, delayed in doing antenatal care and miscarriage. It is necessary to improve the role and competence of midwives in early detection of DV in pregnant women who have their antenatal care at a health facility and cross-sector cooperation.

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“…Data from the United Nations (Zikra, 2019) shows that 2 out of three cases of family violence that occur throughout the world, the victims are women. At present, household violence is a serious problem among the masses, and most of it have become a culture (Jawarkar, Shemar, Wasnik, & Chavan, 2016). One of the triggers of family violence is because many husbands and wives cannot combine the differences between the two, so that conflicts occur.…”

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Why Victims of Domestic Violence Still Survive Their Marriage? Preliminary Analysis of Forgiveness Dynamics Conditions

Afdal¹,

Sari²,

Fikri³

et al. 2019

IJRICE

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The purpose of this study was to find out how the dynamics of forgiveness of domestic violence victims. Anything that is the reason for the victim chooses to provide forgiveness and maintain the relationship of his household. The method used in this article is the library research method. The results of this study indicate that victims of domestic violence choose to provide forgiveness because it is influenced by certain factors. This factor becomes a force of the victim to maintain his household relationship. As for some of these factors, such as the presence of children, feeling ashamed to report the treatment of their husbands, not having a job so that they depend on living fully with their husbands and considering the length of marriage that has been fostered together.

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Domestic violence against women: a crossectional study in rural area of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India

Cited by 9 publications

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Psychiatry Disorders and Sociodemographic Profile of the Victims of Assault Attending the Teaching Hospital—Cross-Sectional Study

Psychiatry Disorders and Sociodemographic Profile of the Victims of Assault Attending the Teaching Hospital—Cross-Sectional Study

Domestic Violence in Pregnant Women and Their Types. Case Study in Bali, Indonesia

Why Victims of Domestic Violence Still Survive Their Marriage? Preliminary Analysis of Forgiveness Dynamics Conditions

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