Intimate Partner Violence Research Paper

Intimate Partner Violence to Women
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the major public health problems worldwide that disrupts the important human rights of women. [1,2]World Health Organization defines IPV as “behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, and psychological abuse and controlling behaviors. [2]. IPV can vary in its severity from milder forms of physical injury such as pushing, slapping, shoving, punching to severe forms such as killing by burning alive, firing with a gun, stabbing by a knife and life threatening poisoning. It also can cause psychological disturbance by acts of humiliation, intimidation and other controlling …show more content…
This study of a nationally characteristic sample of women also show vice-versa results in terms of IPV influenced women’s health and welfare were affected by the specific types of violent acts among different racial groups. [18]
There are plenty of studies done all over the world show the direct impact of substance abuse and the rate of IPV. One study done by University of Colorado on four different types of IPV like minor and major violence, rape or sexual coercion and injury were investigated along with indulge drinking, marijuana and other drug abuse. Results of the study show not only the temporal association between substance use, trauma, and IPV but also the racial and ethnic variances in these relationships. It suggests how critical it is to develop and refine prevention and management services to these women. …show more content…
[7] used the 2011 Nepal NDHS data by Ministry of Health and Population and organizations like New ERA and ICF international Inc. 2012. This was a cross-sectional survey involved men and women of ages 15 to 49. To make is national representative data, they included both rural and urban population and cross-classified them in three clusters of mountains, hill and terai from all five regions of east, central, west, Midwest and far-west region. Outcome variable was the self-reporting of IPV experiences by married women in past 12 months. Women were asked about various severity forms of physical, mental and emotional insults by her husband. Various explanatory variables were defined theoretically and examined empirically with the contexts of Nepalese cultural characteristics. Individual characteristics were classified in sociodemographic and female status factors. Other variables that were specific to Nepalese culture were developed to analyze women’s response, choices made by them, decisions taken and access to resources available. Family characteristics were analyzed included the number of children and husband’s consumption of alcohol and his education status. Community level variables were analyzed according to south Asian contexts. [7]
Statistical analysis was performed first by descriptive statistics of each variables. Pearson chi square test was applied then for all the categorical variables and t-test was applied to all the continuous variables

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