Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a long standing issue that affects women worldwide. In surviving the IPV, women often need to strategize to stay alive and to seek help to end the violence. It is important to explore their strategies for survival in this type of violent relationship. Such exploration remains uninvestigated especially in Malaysia. To fill in this gap, this study aims to examine the coping mechanism of women who have experienced IPV in Malaysia. A total number of 234 women experiencing IPV were recruited for this study and the respondents were chose from all States in the Peninsular Malaysia. The study involved a household survey using a random sampling of enumeration blocks to collect the data. The data were collected using the instrument of the WHO multi-country study. Prior to being interviewed, each respondent was given an information sheet, explaining the study, their rights to participate and withdraw from the interview, as well as the assurance of confidentiality. Results of the study indicate that about 83% (194) of the survivors attempted to seek help from individuals outside of their marriages and from the authorities. The majority of respondents informed individuals about their problem, which indicate the important role of family members and friends in providing intervention in IPV. About 16.5% of respondents reveal their issues to and seek help from the authorities and the majority of these were satisfied with the services they received from the authorities. In conclusion, this study suggests that intervention to IPV cases may be made more effective by understanding women’s help-seeking strategies and improving on these strategies.
Keywords: Coping mechanism, intimate partner violence, experience, survivors, MalaysiaKeywords
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Abstract
References
- Black, M.C. (2011). Intimate partner violence and adverse health consequences: Implications for clinicians. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 5, 428–439. doi:10.1177/1559827611410265
- Bruschi, A.,Paula, C.S.de,& Bordin,I.A.S. (2006).Lifetime prevalenceand help seekingbehavior inphysical marital violence. Rev Saude Publica, 40(2), 256–264. doi:10.1590/S0034-89102006000200011
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- Vic Health, (2004). Preventing violence against women.
- World Health Organization, (2000). World Health Report 2000- Health Systems: Improving Performance.
- World Health Organization, (2013). Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | August 26, 2016 |
| Submission Date | August 24, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016Volume: 2 Issue: 5 |
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