Objectives: The current study tested differences in depression, anxiety, and stress among Iranian wives with and without a history of spousal abuse. Methods: The physically abused wives (N = 40) were among those who had been referred to a local forensic medical center. The control group (N = 40) comprised married women living in the same area of the city as the experimental group. The Persian f...

This study was conducted in two districts: Lamjung and Chitawan. All the respondents were 25 years above fathers. The collected data from face to in–depth interviews. findings show that almost (fathers) care their pregnancy wives. Furthermore, 25-40 age group pregnant wives more sensitively: they are aware of providing rest, not allowing carrying loads, supplying nutritious food, love affection...

to investigation of secondary traumatic stress disorder in wives of iranian war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. 43 wives of iranian war veterans who had participated in iran-iraq war and were diagnosed with ptsd, voluntarily entered in this study. the veterans were treated by psychiatrists of veterans’ organization, tehran, iran. each woman completed a short questionnaire to deter...

Beca se the life expectancy of women is longer than that of men and becatitse men seem to marry younger women, most of the literature on caregivers of the elderly has focusd on women who care for elderly, disabled husbands,. Im order to explore the role of men as caretakers of disabled wives, '25 elderly widowers (aged 63-93) participated in interviews designed to elicit recollections of'the ti...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare overall life satisfaction, subjective well-being, family stress, and stress symptoms of wives of three groups of Iranian disabled veterans. METHOD Participants included 97 wives of three groups of disabled veterans (Group 1with 25-49% disability; Group 2 with 50-69% disability; and Group 3 with larger or equal to 70% disability). The participants...

Objective : 1) To study the occurrence of domestic violence and examine the link between education and occupation on abuse, in study group. 2) To compare the above observations with those of socio demographically similar, control group. Study design: Community based, Case-control study. Study setting: Urban slum community at P/North ward of B.M.C., Mumbai. Participants: 107 couple units in both...

Gender differences in health have been linked to gender stratification in the United States. Women's relation to production, paid and unpaid work, and their experience of this gender inequality disadvantage their self-rated health compared to men. Men's consumption or health lifestyles disfavors their comparative health. This formulation is tested in the Czech Republic with a sample of matched ...

We present the findings from a qualitative study examining the marital perceptions of 9 wives of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data were from a semistructured in-depth focus group interview. Findings reveal how the lives of these women largely revolved around their husbands illness. The wives faced constant tension between being drawn into a fusion with their husbands and ...