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Prevalence and Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Marivan County, Iran

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This paper reports on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as individual, socioeconomic, and family function characteristics associated with IPV among women attending public health services in Marivan County, Iran. Multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 770 women to participate in the study. This descriptive, cross-sectional study took place from May to November 2009. The majority of the women (79.7 %) had experienced psychological IPV, followed by physical IPV (60 %) and sexual IPV (32.9 %). There was a positive significant relationship between IPV and education level of women and the level of religious commitment in both women and spouses. Spouse’s smoking, addiction to drugs, mental illness, and weakness in religious persuasion were statistically significant predictors of IPV and accounted for 36 % of the variation. This correlational study suggests that educational programs regarding these risk factors and their associations with the outcome of IPV should be designed by healthcare providers and implemented not only in healthcare facilities, but presented from local media. Public health services and healthcare facilities can play an important role in the detection of IPV and improve responses to victims by establishing education centers and informing women of the best ways they can confront this deleterious problem.

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We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the staff of Marivan County Health System in the collection of data. The accuracy of data collection, analysis, and interpretation was the responsibility of the research team.

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  1. School of Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran

    Roonama Nouri

  2. Department of Nursing, Islamic Azad University-Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran

    Haidar Nadrian

  3. School of Health and Health Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Arezoo Yari & Gona Bakri

  4. Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran

    Bahjat Ansari

  5. School of Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Kurdistan, Iran

    Ahmad Ghazizadeh

  6. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Islamic Azad University-Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran

    Haidar Nadrian

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Nouri, R., Nadrian, H., Yari, A. et al. Prevalence and Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Marivan County, Iran. J Fam Viol 27, 391–399 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-012-9440-6

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