ISSN: 2167-0420
Tazeen Saeed Ali
School of Nursing and Midwifery and Community Health Sciences,
Room 2/110, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi
Pakistan
Research Article
Associations of Controlling Behavior, Physical and Sexual Violence with Health Symptoms
Author(s): Tazeen Saeed Ali, Aamir Abbas and Fazal AtherTazeen Saeed Ali, Aamir Abbas and Fazal Ather
Controlling behavior is often manifested as monitoring, coercing or threatening the partner. Globally, it has been experienced by the women (in range of 5.2% to 56.6%) and often results in their physical and mental ill health. To the best of our knowledge there is no published research on controlling behaviors. Therefore, a cross sectional study was conducted to measure the magnitude of the controlling behaviors and its association to some physical stress symptoms of women. The study was conducted in urban settings of Karachi, Pakistan, using simple random sampling technique. The data was collected by trained midwifes from the 759 married women of aged 25 to 60 years. The data was entered in Epi Info version 6 and analyzed on SPSS version 11. The study showed that the prevalence of pastyear physical and sexual violence is 68% while controlling behavior was experienced by 51.6% of the .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-0420.1000202