Social factors contributing to violence against women by their partners in Shahid Fayazbakhsh hospital in 2012

Introduction and Aims:
Violence against women is a social problem that negatively affects other health priorities, such as maternal and child health
and mental health. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of abuse and social factors affecting women who admitted to
Shahid Fayazbakhsh Hospital in 2012.
Materials and Methods:
In this cross-sectional study that was carried out on 100 women who referred to Shahid Fayazbakhsh Hospital of Tehran in
2012, gathered data with questionnaire and interview, finally was analyzed by SPSS software.
Results:
The most common forms of abuse were verbal abuse, emotional, physical and social. Violence against women was much
in older (P=0.01). There was not significant relationship between education and violence (P=0.182, r=0.10). The number of
children and levels of violence in the family have not a significant correlation (P=0.524). A significant relationship between
income and violence against women was abserved (P=0.003).
Conclusion:
The results showed that many of women in this study were influenced by a variety of misconduct. With respect to factors that
influence this problem seems increasing awareness and life skills training to women and girls to repel the couple abuse, can
take steps to reduce this problem.

* Corresponding Author: Tehran, ACECR, Royan institute for reproductive biomedicine,
Department of epidemiology and reproductive health at reproductive epidemiology research center.
Email: Amiralmasi2007@gmail.com