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Intimate partner violence against women with disability and associated mental health concerns: a cross-sectional survey in Mumbai, India

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives The risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women with disability is believed to be high. We aimed to compare the prevalence of past-year IPV against women with and without functional difficulties in urban informal settlements, to ...
David Osrin, Nayreen Daruwalla, Suman Kanougiya, Apoorwa Gupta, ANDREW RILEY, Mary Wickenden   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

VIOLENCE AGAINST ELDERLY WOMEN*

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2023
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the understanding of older women about violence in this age group. Method: Qualitative research carried out between November 2021 and January 2022 with 40 women over 60 years old, attended in the Primary Health Care Network, in a medium-sized municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo - Brazil.
Ademara Aparecida de Oliveira, Carlos Alberto Lazarini, Maria José Sanches Marin, Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon, Magali Aparecida Alves de Moraes, Elza de Fátima Ribeiro Higa   +5 more
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Violence against Amazon women [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2009
This quantitative and exploratory study analyzed violence against Amazon women presented in print media according to type and severity, and whether aggressors fell under the Maria da Penha law. A total of 181 issues of a regional newspaper were consulted.
Lima, Vera Lúcia de Azevedo, Souza, Maria de Lourdes de, Monticelli, Marisa, Oliveira, Marília de Fátima Vieira de, Souza, Carlos Benedito Marinho de, Costa, Carlos Alberto Leal da, Brüggemann, Odaléa Maria   +6 more
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Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram, Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Violence against women during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An integrative review

International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2020
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, incipient data have revealed an increase in violence against women (VAW).
O. R. Sánchez, D. Vale, L. Rodrigues, F. Surita   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using Participatory Learning and Action in a Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020
For over 3 decades, participatory learning and action (PLA) techniques have been prominent in formative and evaluative studies in community-based development programs in the Global South.
Proshant Chakraborty, Nayreen Daruwalla, Apoorwa Deepak Gupta, Unnati Machchhar, Bhaskar Kakad, Shilpa Adelkar, David Osrin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram, Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Frequency and determinants of domestic violence against Iranian women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey

BMC Public Health, 2021
Domestic violence (social, legal, and health violence) is the most common type of violence against women. Due to factors such as the current quarantine, this type of violence has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arezoo Yari, Hosein Zahednezhad, Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh, A. Kurdi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Violence against Women at Work

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
Abstract We link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues and the economic consequences for victims, perpetrators, and firms. This new approach to observe when one colleague attacks another overcomes previous data constraints limiting evidence on this phenomenon to self-reported ...
Adams-Prassl, A, Huttunen, K, Nix, E, Zhang, N   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Patriarchy and gender-inequitable attitudes as drivers of intimate partner violence against women in the central region of Ghana

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background In order to reduce women’s exposure to violence and develop culturally appropriate interventions, it is important to gain an understanding of how men who use violence rationalize it.
Y. Sikweyiya, A. Addo-Lartey, D. O. Alangea, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke, E. Chirwa, D. Coker-Appiah, R. Adanu, R. Jewkes   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source