Bhattacharya Abantika, Yasmin Shamima, Bhattacharya Amiya, Baur Baijayanti, Madhwani Kishore P
Deparment of Community Medicine, Midnapore Medical College, West Bengal, India.
Medical Officer (G&O) Jalpaiguri DH, West Bengal, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Oct 30;9(10):5229-5235. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_506_20. eCollection 2020 Oct.
Domestic violence was identified as a major contributor to the global burden of ill health in terms of female morbidity leading to psychological trauma and depression, injuries, sexually transmitted diseases, suicide, and murder.
The study was conducted to find out the prevalence of different types of lifetime domestic violence against women, factors associated with it, and care-seeking behavior.
An observational cross-sectional study conducted at a slum of Burdwan district of West Bengal, India.
Study was done among 320 ever-married women of 15-49 years of age using a predesigned pretested proforma from March 2019 to December 2019 by face-to-face interview.
Data were compiled and analyzed by EpiInfo 6 and SPSS 20 version.
The overall prevalence of any form of violence during the lifetime among the study population was 35.63%. Verbal/psychological violence was the most common form of domestic violence (91.23%) followed by physical (82.46%) and sexual violence (64.91%). Slapping and/or beating, kicking, and object throwing were the major forms of physical violence; humiliation (88.46%) was the commonest form of psychological violence and most common form of sexual violence was forced sexual intercourse (51.35%). About 20% of the study population faced violence every day. Older age, lower age at marriage, longer duration of marriage, lower education of husband and wife, lower family income, unemployment of the husband, and alcohol consumption of husband were associated with the occurrence of domestic violence. We have found that the prevalence of domestic violence in this group of population is high. The alarming issue is that approximately one-third of women (32.46%) who faced violence in their lifetime had never sought any help. The findings indicate to develop appropriate and culturally relevant public health interventions to increase awareness.
家庭暴力被认定为导致全球女性健康负担加重的一个主要因素，它会引发心理创伤和抑郁、受伤、性传播疾病、自杀及谋杀等问题。
开展此项研究以查明针对女性的不同类型终身家庭暴力的患病率、与之相关的因素以及寻求护理行为。
在印度西孟加拉邦布尔杜万区的一个贫民窟进行的一项观察性横断面研究。
2019年3月至2019年12月期间，通过面对面访谈，使用预先设计并经过预测试的表格，对320名年龄在15至49岁之间的已婚女性进行了研究。
数据通过EpiInfo 6和SPSS 20版本进行汇编和分析。
研究人群中任何形式的终身暴力总体患病率为35.63%。言语/心理暴力是最常见的家庭暴力形式（91.23%），其次是身体暴力（82.46%）和性暴力（64.91%）。扇耳光和/或殴打、踢打以及扔物品是身体暴力的主要形式；羞辱（88.46%）是心理暴力最常见的形式，性暴力最常见的形式是强迫性交（51.35%）。约20%的研究人群每天都面临暴力。年龄较大、结婚年龄较小、婚姻持续时间较长、夫妻受教育程度较低、家庭收入较低、丈夫失业以及丈夫饮酒与家庭暴力的发生有关。我们发现这一人群中家庭暴力的患病率很高。令人担忧的问题是，约三分之一（32.46%）终身遭受暴力的女性从未寻求过任何帮助。研究结果表明需要制定适当且符合文化背景的公共卫生干预措施以提高认识。
