Citation

Ipekten Alaman M, Yıldız H. Women Health 2014; 54(5): 439-454.

Affiliation

Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/03630242.2014.897674

PMID

24794853

Abstract

Domestic violence is a universal problem, and sexual abuse-violence in marriage, in particular, is a hidden form of it. This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to determine to the prevalence of domestic sexual abuse-violence by husbands, the prevalence of sexual problems, and the relation of these among married women attending a gynecology outpatient clinic. This study was performed in a university hospital in Turkey and data were collected on February-April 2009. The study sample consisted of 200 married women, 53% of whom reported having been exposed to at least one type of domestic sexual abuse-violence behaviors by their husbands. Among those behaviors, the rate of marital rape was 33.0%. The frequency of experiencing any sexual problem was 82.0%. Women expressed that they mostly had orgasmic problems, and their husbands had premature ejaculation problems. The majority of women who reported sexual abuse-violence reported experiencing sexual problems; the frequency of sexual problems was higher in the participants who did (94.3%) than in those who did not report (68.1%) sexual abuse-violence (p<0.001). Bad sexual harmony (odds ratio [OR]=13.50,95% CI,3.87-47.01) and experiencing sexual problems (OR=12.67,95% CI,3.78-42.35) were strongly related to sexual abuse-violence in marriage. The results also revealed that the prevalence of sexual abuse-violence and sexual problems among those married women who attended gynecology clinics was considerable, even though they did not report this to the health care provider as a problem.

Language: en