Health Professionals' Opinions on "Intimate Partner Violence against Women"

• Published in: International journal of caring sciences 2020-05, Vol.13 (2), p.1193-1202
• Main Authors: Karaca, Pelin Palas, Kaya, Yeliz, Aksu, Sevde Cubukcu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: College faculty; Data collection; Domestic violence; Education; Gender-based violence; Health research; Intimate partner violence; Kruskal-Wallis test; Medical personnel; Medicine; Midwifery; Normal distribution; Nurses; Parent-child relations; Physicians; Pregnancy; Privacy; Professionals; Research methodology; University faculty; Variance analysis; Violence against women; Womens health; Working hours
• ISSN: 1791-5201; 1792-037X

Objectives: This study aims to determine the health professionals' opinions on intimate partner violence against women. Methodology: This research is descriptive. The research was conducted between October 2019 and December 2019 with a total of 120 nurses, midwives and physicians working at the Health Practice and Research Hospital of a University Faculty of Medicine. The data were collected with personal identifying information and the health professionals' opinion form on intimate partner violence against women. In the evaluation of the data, ttest analysis, one-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test were used. Results: The study found that a large proportion of midwives, nurses, and physicians did not receive education before graduation violence against women (71.7%) and intimate partner violence (88.3%). Our survey found that nearly all health professionals (93.3%) did not receive a certified education on violence against women after graduation. In the study, it was determined that health professionals encountered intimate partner violence against women (63.3%) during their professional life. The majority of health professionals agreed with Intimate partner violence is a global health problem (89.2%), Intimate partner violence has a negative impact on parent-child communication(97.5%), *women are more exposed to intimate partner violence (93.3%) and there are women who are exposed to intimate partner violence during pregnancy (93.3%) on the opinion form on intimate partner violence against women. Conclusions: The study revealed that a large proportion of health professionals have a high awareness of intimate partner violence against women.