Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Public Health, School of Nursing, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reprod Health. 2024 Jun 11;21(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s12978-024-01825-x.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women. Postpartum IPV refers to any type of IPV that occurs up to one year after childbirth and has many adverse impacts on mothers and their children. Considering the lack of sufficient information on the prevalence and factors related to IPV after childbirth in Iran, this study aimed to evaluate the frequency and severity of IPV, its different forms, and psychosocial factors related to IPV, as well as to explore how IPV is perceived among mothers one year after childbirth.
An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was used to conduct this study in two phases. The first phase is a cross-sectional study that will be performed on postpartum mothers who have a one-year-old child referred to health care centers in the southern region of Tehran, Iran, with the aim of determining the prevalence of IPV and its related factors. The second phase is a qualitative conventional content analysis study with the purpose of exploring women's experiences and perceptions of IPV and its preventive or protective factors. Purposive sampling will be used. Based on the results of the quantitative phase, mothers who are at the two ends of the IPV spectrum (based on their total Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS-2) scores) will be selected, and in-depth and semistructured interviews will be conducted with them. Finally, the researchers will provide an interpretation of the quantitative results using qualitative data.
This is the first study that uses a mixed methods approach to explain different dimensions of IPV, its related factors, and mothers' perceptions of it. By providing a better understanding of this phenomenon, it is hoped that the results of this research will be used by policymakers and officials of educational and cultural systems to plan and provide effective interventions, enact laws, and present educational and cultural programs to prevent IPV after childbirth.
IR.TUMS.FNM.REC1400.200.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是针对女性的最常见暴力形式。产后 IPV 是指在分娩后一年之内发生的任何类型的 IPV，它对母亲及其子女有许多不良影响。考虑到伊朗缺乏关于产后 IPV 的流行率和相关因素的充分信息，本研究旨在评估产后 IPV 的频率和严重程度、其不同形式以及与 IPV 相关的社会心理因素，并探讨母亲在分娩后一年对 IPV 的看法。
本研究采用解释性顺序混合方法设计，分两个阶段进行。第一阶段是横断面研究，将对伊朗德黑兰南部地区保健中心的有一岁以下婴儿的产后母亲进行，目的是确定 IPV 的流行率及其相关因素。第二阶段是定性常规内容分析研究，旨在探讨女性对 IPV 及其预防或保护因素的经验和看法。将采用目的抽样法。根据定量阶段的结果，将选择处于 IPV 谱两端的母亲（根据其总的冲突策略量表（CTS-2）得分），并对她们进行深入和半结构化访谈。最后，研究人员将使用定性数据对定量结果进行解释。
这是第一项使用混合方法来解释 IPV 的不同维度、其相关因素以及母亲对其看法的研究。通过更好地了解这一现象，希望研究结果能被政策制定者和教育及文化系统官员用来规划和提供有效的干预措施、制定法律以及提出教育和文化方案，以预防产后 IPV。
IR.TUMS.FNM.REC1400.200.
