TY - JOUR
T1 - Domestic Violence Among Iraqi Refugees in Syria
AU - Tappis, Hannah
AU - Biermann, Elizabeth
AU - Glass, Nancy
AU - Tileva, Margarita
AU - Doocy, Shannon
N1 - Funding Information:
Received 22 February 2011; accepted 28 November 2011. Funding for this study was provided by the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Address correspondence to Shannon Doocy, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Suite E8132, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail: sdoocy@jhsph.edu
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - A domestic violence questionnaire was administered to 701 adult females in a sample of 813 Iraqi households in Syria; unmarried women and women whose husbands were away were excluded, yielding a final sample of 486. Lifetime physical, verbal, or emotional abuse was reported by 30%, and approximately 20% experienced abuse within the past year. Non-Damascus residence, children &18 years in the household, no financial challenges upon arrival, and borrowing money in Syria were associated with increased risk of domestic violence within the past year. Support services are inadequate and should be expanded; and longer-term prevention measures also should be implemented.
AB - A domestic violence questionnaire was administered to 701 adult females in a sample of 813 Iraqi households in Syria; unmarried women and women whose husbands were away were excluded, yielding a final sample of 486. Lifetime physical, verbal, or emotional abuse was reported by 30%, and approximately 20% experienced abuse within the past year. Non-Damascus residence, children &18 years in the household, no financial challenges upon arrival, and borrowing money in Syria were associated with increased risk of domestic violence within the past year. Support services are inadequate and should be expanded; and longer-term prevention measures also should be implemented.
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U2 - 10.1080/07399332.2011.645969
DO - 10.1080/07399332.2011.645969
M3 - Article
C2 - 22325027
AN - SCOPUS:84857329295
SN - 0739-9332
VL - 33
SP - 285
EP - 297
JO - Health care for women international
JF - Health care for women international
IS - 3
ER -