Domestic Violence: A Community based cross sectional study among rural married females in North West India

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dc.contributor.authorGupta, Rajiv Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorKumari, Rashmien_US
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Parveenen_US
dc.contributor.authorLanger, Bhavnaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-16T09:00:58Z
dc.date.available2020-10-16T09:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractViolence against women a social evil in the society despite a lot of talk of women empowerment. Assessmentof burden in terms of prevalence will go a long way in planning the services for those affected bydomestic violence. To find the prevalence of domestic violence and associated risk factors among marriedfemales in a rural area of Jammu. This community based cross-sectional study was conducted amongrural married females using a structured and pretested questionnaire. Data was analysed using simpleproportions, chi-square test and logistic regression. 171/301(56.6%) of the respondents reported someform of the domestic violence. Psychological, physical and sexual violence rates were found to be32.16%, 9.9% and 2.33% respectively. A statistically significant association was found with variables likeliteracy, type of family, family income, sex of children etc. Relatively high levels of domestic violence inthis rural setting calls for a multidisciplinary approach involving improvement of literacy levels amongfemales, creating awareness about legal aid and screening the victims at primary health centres to mitigatethis problem.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDeptt. of PSM, Govt. Medical College, Jammu.(J&K), Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationGupta Rajiv K, Kumari Rashmi, Singh Parveen, Langer Bhavna. Domestic Violence: A Community based cross sectional study among rural married females in North West India. JK Science Journal of Medical Education and Research. 2019 Jan; 2019 Jan: 35-41en_US
dc.identifier.issn0972-1177
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/211034
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherJK Scienceen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber1en_US
dc.relation.volume21en_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.jkscience.org/archives/volume211/8-Original%20Article.pdfen_US
dc.subjectDomestic Violenceen_US
dc.subjectPrevalenceen_US
dc.subjectRisk Factorsen_US
dc.subjectRural Married Femalesen_US
dc.titleDomestic Violence: A Community based cross sectional study among rural married females in North West Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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