Clinical trial NCT05601297: Acceptability of Women to Intimate Partner Violence and Its Correlates Among Attendants of Maternal and Child Center in Assiut
Official title: Acceptability of Women to Intimate Partner Violence and Its Correlates Among Attendants of Maternal and Child Health Center in Assiut City
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Violence Against Women
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-11-01
Enrollment: 50
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Data will be collected through a semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire Interviewer administered questionnaire

1. Personal and demographic characters of women and their husbands; age, religion, current residence and residence in childhood (urban and rural), education, employment.
2. Family characteristics: family type nuclear or extended, if the couples are blood relatives or not, media exposure, and assessment of family socioeconomic status using family income in L.E per month, response to the absence of economic difficulty in making it to the end of the month (much difficulty, difficulty, certain difficulty, much ease, ease, or certain ease)(10), and the Egypt socioeconomic scale by El-Gilany A (11).

Brief summary: identify acceptability of ever married women against intimate partner violence and its correlates among women attending primary health care in Assiut city.

Detailed description: Violence against women is a major public health problem . World Health Organization estimates that globally 30% of women have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence(IPV) or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.

IPV refers to any behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological or sexual harm to those in the relationship. IPV definition covers violence by both current and former spouses and partners. Forms of intimate partner violence include: Acts of physical violence, sexual violence, emotional (psychological) abuse, and controlling behaviors.

Initial studies on IPV against women tended to concentrate on assessment of incidence and prevalence. Although prevalence is critical, reducing or eliminating some problems also requires comprehension of cultural norms and expectations.

An ecological approach showed that public attitudes accepting or justifying violence and aggression are a risk factor at a macro social level, as they can encourage or deter its occurrence in societies.

UN Women reported that among Egyptian women in reproductive age, the prevalence of lifetime physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence was 26% and the prevalence of physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence in the last 12 months was 14 %.

The Egyptian studies that assessed attitudes of acceptability of IPV and their predictors has explored acceptability to only one form of IPV. Using a single-item measures, they measured justification for the husband's use of more severe physical force in response to the wife's violation of expected domestic roles or his patriarchal control in marriage.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ever married women (current married women and who were married since one year) who seek health services at MCH center.

Exclusion Criteria:

* single women not previously married
* and women who were married since more than one year

Primary outcomes:
measure: level of acceptability of intimate partner violence among ever married women
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: level of victim blaming attitude in case of intimate partner violence
timeFrame: 2 years
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