Domestic violence and its predictors among married women in reproductive age in Fagitalekoma Woreda, Awi zone, Amhara regional state, North Western Ethiopia

Reproductive Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Semahegn, Agumasie ^a   Belachew, Tefera ^b   Abdulahi, Misra ^b  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Domestic; Ethiopia; Violence; Women

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURPOSIVE SAMPLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BATTERED WOMEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXISM; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 84889048382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-10-63     Document Type: Article

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