Intimate partner violence among reproductive-age women with chronic mental illness attending a psychiatry outpatient department: cross-sectional facility-based study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), and associated factors, in reproductive-aged women attending psychiatric outpatient departments.

Design

Cross-sectional facility-based study.

Setting

Outpatient psychiatric clinics of public hospitals in Addis Ababa.

Participants

Reproductive aged women with chronic mental illness (CMI) who attended follow-up in psychiatric outpatient clinics.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The data were collected using a multi-culturally validated instrument from randomly sampled women with CMI. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify factors independently associated with IPV.

Result

Four hundred and twenty-two women who were attending the psychiatric outpatient clinics to

SUBMITTER: Zerihun T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655586 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature