كليدواژه :
پزشكي , Prevalence , اصفهان , Spouse abuse , همسرآزاري , Isfahan
چكيده لاتين :
Background: Spouse abuse consists of aggression, beating and slapping, affront, mental- social economic- sexual abuse and etc. The side for wives effects range from physical, mental and social harms to eath. There are few studies on this subject in Iran; therefore we designed a survey to study its situation in Isfahan city of Iran.
Methods: In this Cross Sectional study with Cluster Random Sampling, we selected 4 serial houses from 0 blocks of 495 blocks according to map of Isfahan city and 386 married women were interviewed using andard questionnaire.
Results: The mean age of these women was 35.7(15-78) years and the mean age of marriage was 19.3(9-) years, 2.4% of them were foreigners, 1.8% Christian and others Muslim, 7.5% of them were illiterate. revalence of Smoking-Alcohol and Drug abuse was 0.5% in them and 33,7%-7.8%-5.7%.
respectively in their husbands prevalence of spouse abuse from marriage time was 36.8% and incidence rate as 29.3% in recent year. The most common time of spouse abuse was in the night. The most common types of were: disregarding wivesʹ feelings 45%, agression 43%, unconsented intercourse 31%, forced intercourse 8%, insecurity at home 15.8%. Threat to: Discontinue relations with other family members 38%, affront 2%, Beating 24%, quitting 18%, Divorce 15%, Death 7%, knifing 6%, Gunning 2%. making problems such : financial 10%, House- Clothing- Food supplies 14%- 14%- 8%. History of: Slapping 32%, humiliation 9%, Beating 27%, Knifing 3.4%.
Conclusion: Given the high prevalence and incidence rate of spouse abuse, we suggest that an analytical tudy to identify the risk factors of spouse abuse in our community be carried out and public enforce on mutual rights and duties of wives and husbands planned and performed.
