Impacts of COVID-19 on family violence in Thailand: prevalence and influencing factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected societies globally, prompting rising unemployment, insufficient household incomes, and stress and undermining women's and children's health within families. This study examined family violence and identified influencing factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand.

Methods

A mixed-method design was used, entailing a questionnaire followed by focus group interviews. A cross-sectional survey was administered to investigate family violence among 1285 female respondents aged 15 years and above who were recruited through stratified sampling. The Cronbach alpha and and inter-raters Kappa coefficient values for the questionnaire were 0.67 and 1.00, respectively. In addition, a descriptive qualitative instrument was employed

SUBMITTER: Napa W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10233183 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature