جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Emotional Violence » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

In recent years, violence against women has been an important problem in developing and developed countries; In such a way that the World Health Organization has declared domestic violence as a public health epidemic. Violence against women is a complex social phenomenon with psychological, physical, and moral damage. Hence, the present study was designed to investigate the prevalence of domestic violence and its related factors in married women aged 18-49 years in Yasuj, Iran.

The present cross-sectional (descriptive-analytic) study was conducted by simple random sampling, with 384 married women aged 18-49 years with a minimum of one-year marriage were enrolled from four urban health centers. Data were collected using demographic and domestic violence (33 questions in physical, verbal, emotional and financial aspects) questionnaires. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 23 software using descriptive and analytic (logistic regression) statistics.

The mean age of women was 29.32 ± 5.89 years, the mean age of marriage was 21.55 ± 4.20 years. The mean age and marriage age of the husbands were 33.92 ± 6.62 and 26.47 ±4.28 years, respectively. About 90 women had experienced domestic violence during their lifetime. The most common types of violence were verbal (80), emotional (73), financial (48) and physical (22), respectively. The most common form of verbal violence was yelling (29) and verbal arguments (21). The most common form of emotional violence was the husband's interference in the relationship between the wife and her family members (18), the husband's dominance and the expectation of the wife's obedience (17). The most common form of financial violence was reluctantly paying alimony to the wife (12) and also the husband making financial decisions without asking the wife’s opinion (10). The most common form of physical violence was pushing (11.5), slapping (9) and throwing objects (9). According to logistic regression analysis, husband's age at marriage was the only predictive factor of domestic violence against women (Exp β =0/925, CI0/95 Expβ=0/86-0/99, Sig= 0/0025).

Considering the high prevalence of domestic violence against women, especially verbal and emotional violence, teaching life skills, especially communication skills in marital life, is necessary in premarital counseling.

Domestic violence against women and its related factors in Ahvaz in 2016-2017 Background & Domestic violence is the most common against women with negative effect on mother’s health, family, children and society. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence against women in Ahvaz. This descriptive cross - sectional study was conducted on 310 of peoples referred to the forensic medicine of Ahvaz at 2016-2017 years. Information about age, sex, job, education, type of injury and damage tools were collected through a person's case file. Data were analyzed using SPSS with 95% confidence interval. The most common violence against subjects was physical violence (73.1%). The prevalence of mental-emotional violence was 26.9%. The results showed that housewives (78 percent) than employed women (21.9 percent) are more vulnerable to domestic violence, and there was significant relationship between unemployment and the rate of domestic violence (p≤0.01). The results showed that all types of violence against women associated with education (p≤0.001), and most common violence was against those with high school diploma (54.5 percent) and under diploma (25.7%) compared to academic subjects (19.9 percent). Physical violence was the most widespread form of domestic violence and was related to the occupation and education of individuals. Regarding the high prevalence of domestic violence, screening programs are necessary to reduce this problem, and education is the best proposed solution to reduce domestic violence against women. Keywords: Domestic Violence; Physical Violence; Emotional Violence; Ahvaz

Domestic violence is one of the major health problems and is a common source of health disorder among women which includes cases of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The purpose of the present study was to provide a systematic review and meta-analysis study by reviewing the studies on the various forms of physical, sexual, and emotional violence.
This study included, the full-text studies on domestic violence against women performed from 2001 to 2014. Finally a total of 52 articles were selected using national and international data bases such as Science Direct, Scopus, Magiran PreQuest, SID, Google Schola, and Pubmed. Data analysis was done by meta-analysis method, applying random effects model. Study heterogeneity was measured by I2 test. The data were analyzed by STATA version 11.2.
The prevalence rate of emotional-mental violence (59% with CI 95%: 50-67) was higher than those of physical violence (45 % with CI 95%: 34-55) and sexual violence (32% with CI 95%: 25-50). Meta-regression results indicated a chronologically decreasing trend in the prevalence rates of sexual (P=0.083) and physical (P=0.276) violence; and a chronologically increasing trend in the prevalence rate of domestic violence (P=0.377).
Considering the high prevalence rate of domestic violence among the Iranian women (especially emotional violence), more studies are necessary to determine predisposing factors for emotional violence. We can also prevent the increasing trend of emotional violence by following policies advocating a higher level of social support for women and increasing the awareness of the public about the importance of the issue.

Background and Oppositional defiant disorder is one of the most common disruptive behavioral disorders. The aim of this study was to study the causal relationship of parents’ physical and emotional violence with anger management and aggressive behavior of children with oppositional defiant disorder mediated by parent-child relationship and empathy
This study is the correlation and path analysis. Statistical population of this study included all female students in third to eighth grade with defiant disorder. Of this population, a sample of 100 subjects were selected by multistage random sampling. The tools used in this study included Children Oppositional Defiant Disorder Rating Scale of Homerson et al (2006), Child Abuse and Trauma Questionnair (CTQ) of Bernstein (1995), Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) of Strauss (1979), Child-Parent Relationship Questionnaire (CPRS) of Fine et al (1983), Children’s Emotional Management Scale (CEMS) of Zeman et al (2001), Baron-Cohen’s Empathy Questionnaire (2003), Child Behavior Scale (CBS) of Ladd and Proflit (1996), and the structured clinical interview.
The results showed that emotional violence has a significant direct effect on aggressive behavior and anger management, but physical violence has only a direct effect on aggressive behavior. Also, the results demonstrated that empathy and parent-child relationship can act as a mediator between physical violence and emotional violence with anger management and aggressive behavior.
The results has highlighted the importance of parents’ behaviors and recognizing symptoms and how to deal properly with child has oppositional defiant disorder symptoms.

Violence against women is a considerable concern in all communities. Although many studies have been done on mental health outcomes of the violence on women، it has still many unknown aspects. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence against women in Isfahan. In a cross-sectional study all the women referred to health centers in Isfahan were studied in 2011. A self-developed questionnaire with known reliability and validity was used as a data collection tool. Data were analyzed using SPSS with 95% confidence interval. The most common violence against women was emotional violence with52. 82%. The prevalences of verbal، financial، and physical violence were 47. 69%، 35. 38%، 24. 87%، respectively. The results indicated that housewives are at the greatest risk for domestic violence. Moreover، the results showed that the types of violence against women are different in terms of their education. Most important reasons for abuse were husband’s impatience and fatigue (37. 38%)، husband’s fussiness (30. 14%)، husband’s pessimism (16. 54%)، relative and family interference (9. 9%) and wife’s smartass (6. 04%). The high rate of domestic violence is a cause of concern. Education is the best proposed solution to reduce domestic violence against women. Training life skills at school، health centers، and especially through media may be useful. Using counseling services and promotion of counseling culture are very important for young couples.

Diverse violence against women has several negative effects, especially after partum. Also, social supportive is one of the factors to enhance the mental health during this phase. Therefore, the aim of current study is to investigate the relationship between physical and emotional-verbal violence and social support with postpartum depression among women. This research is a descriptive correlational. The population is comprised women with postpartum depression in Tehran city in the years of 2014-15. The 140 women with postpartum depression were selected in a purposed sampling. The measuring instruments are Edinburgh Postnatal Depression (EPDS), Scale methods of conflict in marital disputes (CTS-2) and perceived social support scale multi-dimensional (MSPSS). Data was analyzed utilizing Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. The results indicated that the relationship of total score of violence rate and postpartum depression are statistically significant (p<0.001), although there is not the significant relationship between the verbal- emotional violence and postpartum depression (p<0.001). Also, the total score of perceived social support and postpartum depression are statistically significant. In addition, violence and perceived social support can be predicted 16.9% and -0.319% of the variance of postpartum depression respectively. These findings emphasize that violence and lack of social support increase the occurrence of postpartum depression. Hence, it should be considered as risk factors in therapeutic intervention and postpartum depression prevention programs.