The WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women is a research initiative that has produced data on intimate-partner violence comparable across the 10 countries in this report: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Carried out in adherence to strict ethical, safety and qua...

... I don’t feel well and I just cry. There are times that I want to be dead, I even thought of killing myself or poisoning myself and my kids, because I think if I have suffered that much, how much would my kids suffer if I am no longer there... Woman interviewed in Peru has sex, the more likely it is that the encounter was forced (23). For example, in the Rakai study mentioned above, whereas ...

OBJECTIVE It is recommended to assess the psychological status of adolescents with diabetes periodically as part of ongoing care. The WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) is a short self-report instrument that appears suitable for this purpose. This study is the first to assess the reliability and validity of the WHO-5 in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Ninety-one ado...