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Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Against Women In A Mega City Of South-Asia: Multi-Centre Cross-Sectional Study, Niloufer S. Ali, Farzana N. Ali, Ali K. Khuwaja, Kashmira Nanji
Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Against Women In A Mega City Of South-Asia: Multi-Centre Cross-Sectional Study, Niloufer S. Ali, Farzana N. Ali, Ali K. Khuwaja, Kashmira Nanji
Department of Family Medicine
Objectives: To assess the proportion of women subjected to intimate partner violence and the associated factors, and to identify the attitudes of women towards the use of violence by their husbands. Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Family practice clinics at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.
Participants: A total of 520 women aged between 16 and 60 years were consecutively approached to participate in the study and interviewed by trained data collectors. Overall, 401 completed questionnaires were available for analysis. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify the association of various factors of interest.
Results: In all, 35% of …