Epidemiological Investigation of Violence and related Damage in Clients Referring to Tehran Forensic Medicine Shift Center in 1394

Violence involves a range of intentional physical, psychological, emotional and verbal acts that have a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the individual. Investigating and identifying the causes of violence and recognizing the harm caused, could help prevent and reduce its physical and psychological complications. Knowing the most vulnerable organs in the quarrels and doing basic research could open up a new horizon in conducting forensic medical operations as well as enabling social pathology for the problem of violence at the community level.
This study was conducted as a descriptive case series. In this study, 1000 clients from the night shift centre of the General Directorate of Forensic Medicine of Tehran Province during the period of 2015, who were affected by the onset of violence were investigated. The confidentiality of the client's information through voluntary data by completing a questionnaire, was observed according to the ethical codes. The injured peoples who were referred by the judicial or police authorities were examined by physicians and their demographic and clinical characteristics were collected in a special questionnaire. Finally, after the encoding their information, they were analyzed by the SPSS software.
32.5% (188) of the clients were women and 66% (331 people) were men. 342 people were in the range of 40-40 years. The most frequent causes of violence were related to domestic disputes were 16.4%, and after that, the conflict over shared urban and residential spaces was 13.9%. The most common of the beating was by punches at 46% of incidents. Most of the violence time was between 12 noon to 20 PM. Most of the lesions were bruises, redness and blackness (38.2%), 18.5% had previous quarrel history.
The results of the study indicate increased domestic and social conflicts over shared residential. Therefore family counselling should focus on promoting the marital relationships and through discussing psychological problems and strive for better understanding of the household settings. On the other hand, promoting the mental health of the community and educating the public to live according to the proper civil culture and codes required for living peacefully in residential complexes.