Depression in Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
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In the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the awareness of IPV and the incidents of IPV reported in different countries. In 2002, the issue was raised at the international level by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its first report on health and violence against women (Krug, 2002). According to the report, the lifetime prevalence of physical assaults by intimate partners against women was between 10 and 69 percent among 48 population-based surveys worldwide (Krug, 2002).
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