Opinions of married women about potential causes and triggers of intimate partner violence against women. A cross-sectional investigation in an Iranian city

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hamzeh, Behrooz ^a,b,c   Farshi, Mirtaghi Garousi ^d   Laflamme, Lucie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MARRIED WOMAN; OCCUPATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 46849106310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-209     Document Type: Article

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