Guruge Sepali, Roche Brenda, Catallo Cristina
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2K3.
Nurs Res Pract. 2012;2012:434592. doi: 10.1155/2012/434592. Epub 2012 May 20.
Violence against women is a serious health and social problem for women worldwide. Researchers have investigated the broad physical and mental health consequences of violence against women but few have focused on immigrant and refugee women. We assessed the history of violence and the impairment of physical and mental health among 60 women participants from the Iranian and Sri Lankan Tamil communities in Toronto, Canada. Our survey findings revealed that the participants had experienced various types of violence throughout their lifespan, with psychological abuse by a spouse/partner occurring most frequently in the past 12 months. Commonly reported types of abuse included insulting, criticizing, and intimidation by partner (psychological abuse); slapping, hitting, and shoving (physical abuse); and forced sexual intercourse and sexually degrading acts (sexual abuse) by a partner/spouse. We found that a substantial proportion of the participants also had experienced physical and mental health impairment, which could be a result of the various types of violence they had experienced throughout their lifespan. Research and practice implications are provided.
对全球女性而言，暴力侵害妇女行为是一个严重的健康和社会问题。研究人员已对暴力侵害妇女行为造成的广泛身心健康后果进行了调查，但很少有人关注移民妇女和难民妇女。我们评估了加拿大多伦多60名来自伊朗和斯里兰卡泰米尔社区的女性参与者的暴力史以及身心健康损害情况。我们的调查结果显示，这些参与者在其一生中经历过各种类型的暴力，过去12个月里配偶/伴侣的心理虐待最为常见。常见的虐待类型包括伴侣的侮辱、批评和恐吓（心理虐待）；掌掴、殴打和推搡（身体虐待）；以及伴侣/配偶的强迫性交和有辱人格的性行为（性虐待）。我们发现，相当一部分参与者还出现了身心健康损害，这可能是她们一生中所经历的各种暴力行为导致的。本文还提供了研究和实践方面的启示。
