Psychiatric evaluation of married women who exposed to domestic violence: Aile içi şiddete maruz kalan evli kadınların psikiyatrik değerlendirilmesi

Hasibe Ebru Kaymaz; Ahmet Öztürk; Erman Bağcıoğlu

doi:10.5455/GMJ-30-40840

Authors

Hasibe Ebru Kaymaz Tuzla State Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, İstanbul
Ahmet Öztürk Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Kütahya
Erman Bağcıoğlu Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Afyonkarahisar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5455/GMJ-30-40840

Keywords:

Domestic violence, psychiatry outpatients clinic, sociodemographic

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine sociodemographic data of psychiatric outpatients married women who reported exposed to domestic violence and to compare their anxiety, depression and dissociation inventory scores with healthy controls. The study included 30 married women who reported exposed to domestic violence admitted psychiatry outpatient clinic of the Haydarpasa Teaching and Research Hospital and 30 healthy individuals without a history of domestic violence recruited from the community. The Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory and sociodemographical form were administered to participants. Socioeconomic level is lower in abused women than in control group. Physical and verbal violence methods by husbands were applied (96.6% in both). The beck depression, the beck anxiety and dissociation experience scores were higher in abused women than in control group (p=0.023, p=0.034, p=0.045). Domestic violence may contribute development of psychiatric illness. Domestic violence should be questioned in psychiatry outpatient examination.

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