BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a serious and widespread problem worldwide. Much of the research on IPVAW focused on individual-level factors and attention has been paid to the contextual factors. The aim of this study was to develop and test a model of individual- and community-level factors associated with IPVAW. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a (multivariat...

In some relationships, pregnancy is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV). We present a case of a 34-year-old, 28-week-pregnant woman who was admitted to the emergency department with multiple traumas due to IPV. Her husband had hit her with a power cable after abusing methamphetamine. There were multiple ecchymoses and lacerations on her body. On questioning, the patient revealed a...

This article attempts to summarize the situations of gender-based violence, a major public health issue. Due to the unequal power relations between men and women, women are violated either in family, in the community or in the State. Gender-based violence takes different forms like physical, sexual or psychological/ emotional violence. The causes of gender-based violence are multidimensional in...

I love my wife dearly. She is very important to me; if there was some kind of threat to her, I would want to protect her from it. Yet there are times when it is I who is the source of disturbance. I am not talking about my annoying habits; this is more serious stuff. Its to do with what therapist Lynne Jacobs calls a traumatised state of mind (TSM). Trauma can be defined as a stressor which ove...