Zakar Rubeena, Zakar Muhammad Zakria, Mikolajczyk Rafael, Kraemer Alexander
a Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, University of the Punjab , Lahore , Pakistan.
Health Care Women Int. 2013;34(9):795-813. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2013.794462. Epub 2013 Jun 21.
In Pakistan, the issue of spousal violence is under-researched and still not considered a public health problem. To assess the association of spousal violence with women's mental health, a hospital-based cross-sectional survey was conducted through a structured interview schedule with 373 randomly selected ever-married women of reproductive age in eight randomly selected hospitals in the cities of Lahore and Sialkot, Pakistan. After controlling for sociodemographic variables, women's experiences of past and current psychological, physical, and sexual violence remained significantly associated with women's poor mental health. The situation warrants urgent action to mitigate the violence-induced damages done to women's mental health.
在巴基斯坦，配偶暴力问题的研究不足，仍未被视为一个公共卫生问题。为评估配偶暴力与女性心理健康之间的关联，在巴基斯坦拉合尔市和锡亚尔科特市的八家随机选取的医院，通过结构化访谈问卷，对373名随机选取的育龄已婚女性进行了一项基于医院的横断面调查。在控制了社会人口学变量后，女性过去和当前遭受心理、身体及性暴力的经历仍与女性较差的心理健康显著相关。这种情况需要采取紧急行动，以减轻暴力对女性心理健康造成的损害。
