Mushtaq Ahmed Ch, Muhammad Yar Malik.
Prevalence of violence against women of child bearing age and its reporting status.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;6(1):55-8.

Objective: To study the magnitude and reporting status of inter personal violence against women of child bearing age. Methodology: Hospital based descriptive study of medico legal violence against women of child bearing age and compared to date of violence collected through house hold survey in a specified population in the same calendar year / period. Result: A total of 3150 cases of violence were recorded out of them only 500 reported to police and out of these, 322 were sent to hospital for medico-legal examination. It was observed that reported violence was 3 per 1000 women of child bearing age as compared to actual violence cases of 20 per 1000 women. Among the various types of violence, physical violence was more common (56%) in comparison to sexual (26.5%), psychological violence (9.5%) while mixed violence (8%). It was further observed that, majority of the accused for physical violence were relatives with 70 % being husbands, majority (87%) of accused of sexual violence were cousins similarly (93%) of accused for psychological violence were cousins / other relatives while, majority (94%) of the accused for mixed violence were unknown. It was also noted that 96% of accused of physical violence cases, 84% of sexual violence cases, 77% of mixed violence, and 82% of psychological violence cases belonged to education level of below matric. It was too observed that 96% of physical violence cases, 91% of sexual, 84% of mixed and 89% of psychological violence cases were form families with monthly income of less that 10000 / month.

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