TY  - JOUR
TI  - Examination of Attitudes of Married Women on Domestic Violence
AB  - Objective: This study was conducted to examine the attitudes of married women towards domestic violence. Method: Thisdescriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted between April and June 2010 with 1,010 women in five Family HealthcareCenters in the province of Erzincan, Turkey. The data were collected using a descriptive questionnaire and the AttitudesTowards Domestic Violence Scale. When analyzing the data, numbers, percentages, minimum and maximum values, meansand standard deviations as well as the Mann-Whitney-U, Kruskall Wallis variance and Spearman correlation analyses wereused. Results: The average score of married women's Attitude Towards Domestic Violence Scale was 31,6 ± 7,0 and theentire women were found to have been exposed to verbal/psychological violence, 31,6% of them to physical violence, 28,3%to economic violence and 1.4% to sexual violence. Women who themselves were high school graduates and their husbandswere high school and university graduates and had a job, who had no children, who lived in a nuclear family in a city ortown, who perceived their income being more than their expenses, who stated that they made decisions together with theirhusbands and who were married at a more advanced age had more negative attitudes towards violence (p<0.001; p<0.01).Conclusion: The attitude of women against domestic violence was at a moderate level and they all were exposed to somekind of violence, verbal/psychological violence being at the top of the list. Nurses and other healthcare professionals shouldbe sensitive about, and take responsibility for, the prevention of domestic violence and strengthening women supportsystems.
AU  - AVCI, İlknur A.
AU  - AŞILAR, Rabia H.
AU  - YILDIRIM, ARZU
DO  - 10.21763/tjfmpc.638295
PY  - 2019
JO  - Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
SN  - 1307-2048
SP  - 407
EP  - 417
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/341790
ER  -