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Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a worldwide problem that affects different social and economic classes, and this violence has almost increased with pandemics as the COVID-19 pandemic. The present survey aimed to assess the prevalence of violence against women in Egypt during the COVID-19 pande...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8520827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34691785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41935-021-00243-5 |
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author | Moawad, Asmaa Mohammad El Desouky, Eman D. Salem, Marwa Rashad Elhawary, Ahmed Sallam Hussein, Sara M. Hassan, Fatma Mohamed |
author_facet | Moawad, Asmaa Mohammad El Desouky, Eman D. Salem, Marwa Rashad Elhawary, Ahmed Sallam Hussein, Sara M. Hassan, Fatma Mohamed |
author_sort | Moawad, Asmaa Mohammad |
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description | BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a worldwide problem that affects different social and economic classes, and this violence has almost increased with pandemics as the COVID-19 pandemic. The present survey aimed to assess the prevalence of violence against women in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the relationship between sociodemographic factors and violence exposure. A total of 509 women were recruited using a self-completion e-form questionnaire. RESULTS: The prevalence of violence experienced by women was (43.8%); the most common type was the emotional representing (96.0%) of exposed women, while sexual violence was the least common (13.5%). Violence exposure was affected significantly by residence governorates, husbands’ working status, reduced husbands’ working hours, and history of violence exposure. CONCLUSIONS: Violence against women in Egypt was increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, which raises the need for a strong and urgent anti-violence program to control this problem. |
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spelling | pubmed-85208272021-10-18 Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic Moawad, Asmaa Mohammad El Desouky, Eman D. Salem, Marwa Rashad Elhawary, Ahmed Sallam Hussein, Sara M. Hassan, Fatma Mohamed Egypt J Forensic Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a worldwide problem that affects different social and economic classes, and this violence has almost increased with pandemics as the COVID-19 pandemic. The present survey aimed to assess the prevalence of violence against women in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the relationship between sociodemographic factors and violence exposure. A total of 509 women were recruited using a self-completion e-form questionnaire. RESULTS: The prevalence of violence experienced by women was (43.8%); the most common type was the emotional representing (96.0%) of exposed women, while sexual violence was the least common (13.5%). Violence exposure was affected significantly by residence governorates, husbands’ working status, reduced husbands’ working hours, and history of violence exposure. CONCLUSIONS: Violence against women in Egypt was increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, which raises the need for a strong and urgent anti-violence program to control this problem. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-10-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8520827/ /pubmed/34691785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41935-021-00243-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Moawad, Asmaa Mohammad El Desouky, Eman D. Salem, Marwa Rashad Elhawary, Ahmed Sallam Hussein, Sara M. Hassan, Fatma Mohamed Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of Egyptian women during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | violence and sociodemographic related factors among a sample of egyptian women during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8520827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34691785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41935-021-00243-5 |
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