Domestic violence during pregnancy is a major health problem with significant psychological and physical impairments for pregnant women. To assess the relationship between domestic violence during pregnancy and women's health-related quality of life (HRQoL), a cross-sectional study was conducted on 341 postnatal women who referred to urban health care centers in Gachsaran, Islamic Republic of I...

despite the history of criminalization of forced pregnancy as sexual violence, certainly the implicit knowledge of forced pregnancy in public sphere and apart from other acts of sexual violence was first created after atrocities took place in bosnia between 1992 and 1995 and in rwanda in 1994. however, explicit criminalization of forced pregnancy as crime against humanity and war crime has been...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and detrimental health effects of intimate partner violence have resulted in international discussions and recommendations that health care professionals should screen women for intimate partner violence during general and antenatal health care visits. Due to the lack of discussion on routine or case-based inquiry for intimate partner violence during antenatal care in ...

Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional associa...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy by itself, imposes great physical and psychological pressures on a person and consequently, coupled with other stressors such as violence, can have adverse effects on the fetus and mother. OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of domestic violence in pregnant women and maternal and infants' outcomes. METHODS This is a descriptive study using a questionnaire. Data were coll...

OBJECTIVES To determine exposure to domestic violence by a partner or spouse among pregnant women attending a public sector hospital in Durban, South Africa. DESIGN Six hundred and four randomly chosen women from a low-income community were interviewed over a 6-month period using a standardised questionnaire. RESULTS Thirty-eight per cent had experienced domestic violence at some point in t...

BACKGROUND Woman's nutritional status, before and during pregnancy, is a strong determinant of health outcomes in the mother and newborn. Gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention increases risk of overweight or obesity in the future and they depend on the pregestational nutritional status and on food consumption and eating behavior during pregnancy. Eating behavior during pregnan...

OBJECTIVE To compare pregnancy intention and domestic violence among women with induced and spontaneous abortion. METHOD Case-control study in Mulago Hospital, Uganda, from September 2003 to June 2004 of 942 women seeking post-abortion care. Direct inquiry, records review and clinical examination identified 333 with induced abortion (cases) and 609 with spontaneous abortion (controls), who we...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is an international public health concern and a violation of women's rights. Domestic violence can first occur, and increase in frequency and severity, during and after pregnancy. Healthcare providers have the potential to identify and support women who experience domestic violence. We sought to investigate the knowledge and perceptions of domestic violence amo...

Domestic violence during pregnancy is a focused attack that puts not just one but two lives at risk, the pregnant woman and the unborn fetus. A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in a PHC facility in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. An interviewer administered questionnaire was used to obtain in...