a Psychiatrist, Shafa Hospital , Guilan University of Medical Sciences , Rasht , Iran.
b Psychiatry, Kavous Behavioral, Cognitive and Addiction Research Center, Shafa Hospital , Guilan University of Medical Sciences , Rasht , Iran.
Psychol Health Med. 2017 Aug;22(7):834-844. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2016.1238489. Epub 2016 Sep 27.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a neglected public health issue in Iran. This study was conducted among married women residing in urban Rasht (northern Iran), to estimate the prevalence and frequency of different forms of IPV from husband and their associations with socio-demographic factors. We carried out a population-based cross-sectional survey with cluster sampling design from February to October 2015. The samples consisted of married women aged ≥ 18 years with total household in Rasht city (north Iran) as the sample frame. We administered the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS-2) to estimate prevalence of past-year IPV. Of 2091 women, 57.1% had suffered psychological aggression, 27.6% physical abuse, 26.6% sexual abuse, and 6.9% injury. A significant association with IPV was found for women with, age ≤ 40 years, unemployed, low education, husband's addiction and rented-householders. Women who experienced physical abuse, had less age at marriage than women without violence. Also women with sexual coercion had less length of marriage than other non-abused women. On logistic regression, the strongest predictor of psychological, physical and sexual abuse was unemployment of spouse, whereas for injury it was low educational level (<12 years) of women. Our findings suggest that risk of IPV is high in our population. There is an obvious need of preventive and treatment activities. Our findings point at that various forms of abuse are different from each other in terms of differing characteristics of the perpetrators and it might be that also different strategies are needed to reduce and prevent these violence. Confirmation by further research is needed.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是伊朗一个被忽视的公共卫生问题。本研究在伊朗北部拉什特市的已婚妇女中进行，旨在估计不同形式的来自丈夫的 IPV 的流行率和频率及其与社会人口因素的关联。我们于 2015 年 2 月至 10 月采用基于人群的聚类抽样设计进行了横断面调查。样本由拉什特市（伊朗北部）已婚且年龄≥18 岁的妇女组成，以家庭为样本框架。我们采用修订后的冲突策略量表（CTS-2）来估计过去一年中 IPV 的发生率。在 2091 名妇女中，57.1%遭受过心理攻击，27.6%遭受过身体虐待，26.6%遭受过性虐待，6.9%遭受过伤害。研究发现，年龄≤40 岁、失业、教育程度低、丈夫吸毒和租房的妇女与 IPV 显著相关。经历过身体虐待的妇女的初婚年龄低于未受暴力侵害的妇女。此外，遭受过性胁迫的妇女的婚姻年限也比其他未受虐待的妇女短。在逻辑回归中，配偶失业是心理、身体和性虐待的最强预测因素，而对于伤害，妇女教育程度低（<12 年）是最强预测因素。我们的研究结果表明，我们人群中的 IPV 风险很高。显然需要开展预防和治疗活动。我们的研究结果表明，各种形式的虐待在施虐者的特征方面彼此不同，可能需要采取不同的策略来减少和预防这些暴力行为。需要进一步的研究来证实。
