Factors affecting the views and experiences of women living in the city centre of Manisa, Turkey, regarding domestic violence
Saliha Özpinar A D , Gönül Dinç Horasan B , Hakan Baydur A and Tülin Canbay CA School of Health/Public Health, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
B Department of Biostatistics and Medical Information, Faculty of Medicine, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
C Faculty of Economics, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
D Corresponding author. Email: salihaozpinar@gmail.com
Australian Journal of Primary Health 22(5) 466-471 https://doi.org/10.1071/PY15032
Submitted: 5 March 2015 Accepted: 4 August 2015 Published: 21 September 2015
Abstract
Domestic violence against women is an important social and public health problem worldwide resulting from unequal power relationships between men and women. The purpose of the present cross-sectional descriptive study was to determine the factors affecting the views and experiences of women living in the city centre of Manisa, Turkey, regarding domestic violence. The data were collected from a representative sample of women (n = 873) in 2012. The socio-demographic questionnaire and the World Health Organization’s Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women were used for data collection. The study results revealed that of the women, 14.8% were exposed to physical violence, 7.9% to sexual violence, 20.2% to emotional violence/abuse and 11.2% to economic violence/abuse within the last 12 months. Lower income level, lower social status, lower educational level, unemployment, being exposed to parental violence during childhood and being married to husbands exposed to parental violence during childhood were associated risk factors with domestic violence. The study results indicate that domestic violence against women is a common phenomenon in Manisa.
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