Publication: Lifetime spousal violence victimization and perpetration, physical illness, and health risk behaviours among women in India
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2018-12-01
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16604601
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16617827
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Mahidol University
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Vol.15, No.12 (2018)
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Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer Lifetime spousal violence victimization and perpetration, physical illness, and health risk behaviours among women in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Vol.15, No.12 (2018). doi:10.3390/ijerph15122737 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45861
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Lifetime spousal violence victimization and perpetration, physical illness, and health risk behaviours among women in India
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The aim of this study was to assess the association between lifetime spousal violence victimization, spousal violence perpetration, and physical health outcomes and behaviours among women in India. In the 2015–2016 National Family Health Survey, a sample of ever-married women (15–49 years) (N = 66,013) were interviewed about spousal violence. Results indicate that 29.9% of women reported lifetime spousal physical violence victimization and 7.1% lifetime spousal sexual violence victimization (31.1% physical and/or sexual violence victimization), and 3.5% lifetime spousal physical violence perpetration. Lifetime spousal violence victimization and lifetime spousal violence perpetration were significantly positively correlated with asthma, genital discharge, genital sores or ulcers, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tobacco use, alcohol use, and termination of pregnancy, and negatively associated with daily consumption of dark vegetables. In addition, lifetime spousal violence victimization was positively associated with being underweight, high random blood glucose levels, and anaemia, and negatively correlated with being overweight or obese. Lifetime spousal violence perpetration was marginally significantly associated with hypertension. The study found in a national sample of women in India a decrease of lifetime physical and/or sexual spousal violence victimization and an increase of lifetime spousal physical violence perpetration from 2005/5 to 2015/6. The results support other studies that found that, among women, lifetime spousal physical and/or sexual spousal violence victimization and lifetime spousal physical violence perpetration increase the odds of chronic conditions, physical illnesses, and health risk behaviours.