Salameh Naeem, Mahamid Fayez, Berte Denise Ziya
Faculty of Law and Political Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
BMC Public Health. 2025 Jul 2;25(1):2235. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23401-z.
The Palestinian National Referral System for Abused Women, issued in 2022, was created to assist individuals affected by family-based violence by providing them with protection and offering standardized procedures for addressing the needs of women and children affected by violence and abuse.
The current study was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of a sample of Palestinian adults related to the Palestinian Referral System for victims of family-based violence, as well as to examine the social and demographic factors that may affect an individual's opinion of the system.
The study sample included 608 adult respondents living in the West Bank of Palestine.
The data concluded that a vast majority of the sample (78%) had a positive opinion of the response system and felt that it was effective, comprehensive, and aligned with the Palestinian community's cultural and religious core values. The data demonstrated that the most robust factor was gender, with female respondents indicating higher levels of satisfaction with the system than males. Education level was significant, with more highly educated individuals expressing higher positive attitudes about the system than less educated participants.
Further research needs to focus on public opinion related to systems of addressing family-based violence, which distinguishes between unpopular legal solutions and practical service provision options that are more generally supported by the Palestinian population. Increasing Islamic and male-focused programming that identifies domestic violence as oppression and outside of cultural norms related to the protection of vulnerable people is another recommendation that stems from the data that demonstrated significant differences between male and female respondents in their support of the current response system for domestic violence.
2022年发布的巴勒斯坦受虐妇女国家转诊系统旨在通过为受家庭暴力影响的个人提供保护，并为解决受暴力和虐待影响的妇女和儿童的需求提供标准化程序，来协助他们。
本研究旨在更好地了解巴勒斯坦成年人样本对巴勒斯坦家庭暴力受害者转诊系统的态度、信念和经历，并研究可能影响个人对该系统看法的社会和人口因素。
研究样本包括居住在巴勒斯坦西岸的608名成年受访者。
数据显示，绝大多数样本（78%）对该应对系统持积极看法，认为它有效、全面，且符合巴勒斯坦社区的文化和宗教核心价值观。数据表明，最显著的因素是性别，女性受访者对该系统的满意度高于男性。教育水平也很重要，受教育程度较高的人对该系统的积极态度高于受教育程度较低的参与者。
进一步的研究需要关注与处理家庭暴力系统相关的公众意见，区分不受欢迎的法律解决方案和巴勒斯坦民众更普遍支持的实际服务提供选项。增加以伊斯兰教和男性为重点的项目，将家庭暴力视为压迫行为，并将其视为与保护弱势群体相关的文化规范之外的行为，这是另一项建议，该建议源于数据显示男性和女性受访者在支持当前家庭暴力应对系统方面存在显著差异。
