Aga Khan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, USA.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2021 Oct;71(10):2298-2303. doi: 10.47391/JPMA.06-761.
To understand the perceptions of women about the influence of dowry customs on their marital life and on intimate partner violence.
The cross-sectional study was conducted in Karachi between 2008 to 2010, and comprised married women of reproductive age. Data was collected through a valid World Health Organisation questionnaire which was validated for the local context after translation into Urdu. Data was analysed using SPSS 10.
Of the 810 women approached, 759(93.7%) formed the final sample. Of them, 447(59%) women and 307(40.4%) of the husbands were aged 25-35 years. Women in arranged marriages involving dowry transaction reported more positive marital outcomes (adjusted odds ratio: 11.5). Consenting to a marriage was positively associated with positive marital life (adjusted odds ratio: 36.8), and the same was the case when the marriage was contingent on dowry transaction (adjusted odds ratio: 10.4). Provision of a dowry, however, was not protective from physical (adjusted odds ratio: 3.7), sexual (adjusted odds ratio: 3.7) or psychological violence (adjusted odds ratio: 8.9).
Dowry practices exist in Pakistani culture despite the fact that dowry wives were found to have no protection against intimate partner violence. However, women perceived that the provision of dowry to groom's family had a positive impact on marital life.
了解妇女对嫁妆习俗对其婚姻生活和亲密伴侣暴力影响的看法。
本横断面研究于 2008 年至 2010 年在卡拉奇进行，研究对象为育龄已婚妇女。通过经过翻译为乌尔都语并验证后的有效世界卫生组织问卷收集数据。使用 SPSS 10 进行数据分析。
在接触的 810 名妇女中，759 名（93.7%）最终入组。其中，447 名（59%）妇女和 307 名（40.4%）丈夫年龄在 25-35 岁之间。涉及嫁妆交易的包办婚姻中的妇女报告有更积极的婚姻结果（调整后的优势比：11.5）。同意婚姻与积极的婚姻生活呈正相关（调整后的优势比：36.8），而婚姻取决于嫁妆交易也是如此（调整后的优势比：10.4）。提供嫁妆并不能防止身体暴力（调整后的优势比：3.7）、性暴力（调整后的优势比：3.7）或心理暴力（调整后的优势比：8.9）。
尽管发现嫁妆妻子在亲密伴侣暴力方面没有得到保护，但嫁妆习俗在巴基斯坦文化中仍然存在。然而，妇女认为向新郎家庭提供嫁妆对婚姻生活有积极影响。
