while men’s violence is assessed within their social life, women’s violence is attributed to personal factors, such as mental stress, aggression and/or womanish nervousness, regardless of social factors. unlike such a common interpretation that tries to associate violence of women with interpretations of stereotypes and individual, in this article, violence of women will be explained in terms o...

Childhood sexual abuse is a prevalent social and health care problem. The processes by which individuals heal from childhood sexual abuse are not clearly understood. The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical model to describe how adults heal from childhood sexual abuse. Community recruitment for an ongoing broader project on sexual violence throughout the lifespan, referred to as t...

BACKGROUND To assess the impact of childhood abuse history, domestic violence experiences and mental health symptoms on the parenting behaviour of mothers in Japan who have separated from violent husbands or partners. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted on a sample of mothers (n = 304) and their children (n = 498) residing in 83 mother-child homes in Japan. The surv...

BACKGROUND Although some studies examined the moderating role of gender in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and mental disorders later in life, a number of them examined the effects of only one or two types of maltreatment on an individual mental disorder, for instance, depression, substance use. It is of considerable clinical and theoretical importance to have in-depth understan...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the association between physical and sexual abuse during childhood and violence during adulthood in a representative sample of female health care users in Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire was administered to 26 042 women over 14 years of age who sought medical consultation from public health care services between October 2002 and March 2003, in all 32 states ...

objective: spouse abuse is a major worldwide health concern and includes a wide range of emotional, physical and sexual maltreatments. the objective of present study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of spouse abuse among women who were registered with health centers in the city of sari. methods: we distributed two specifically designed questionnaires among one thousand women who...

BACKGROUND Among women, risk factors for mental disorders are violence, economical inequities and disadvantages and discrimination. AIM To determine the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in women and to determine factors associated with them. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross sectional study of a probabilistic sample of 422 women aged 34 years as a mean, living in a medium to low inc...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of domestic violence against mothers in a pediatric emergency department and the relationship of their children to the abusers. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of mothers seeking treatment for their children. SETTING An urban pediatric emergency department. PARTICIPANTS A total of 157 mothers with children <3 years of age. Women ...

The purposes of the study were to analyse the lifetime prevalence of violence and sexual abuse among the Inuit in Greenland and to study the associations between health and having been the victim of violence or sexual abuse. Associations were studied with specific attention to possible differences between women and men. Further, response rates were analysed specifically in order to understand c...

Background: Domestic violence against women is a significant public health issue in both developed and developing countries of the world. Intimate partner violence during pregnancy can result in adverse outcomes for both mothers and their infants. Partner violence against women is common during pregnancy and might have an adverse effect on the mental health of women during antenatal pregnancy. ...