Intimate partner violence among general and urban poor populations in kathmandu, nepal

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2073-2092

  Oshiro, Azusa ^a   Poudyal, Amod K ^b   Poudel, Krishna C ^c   Jimba, Masamine ^c   Hokama, Tomiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

domestic violence; legal intervention; predicting domestic violence; violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSE ABUSE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959231102     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260510372944     Document Type: Article

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