Check Out the Correlation Between Structural Social Determinants of Health and Quality of Life of Women Have Experienced Domestic Violence in Tehran Referred to Social Emergency in 2015

Haniyeh Nazem¹, Mahbubeh Ahmadi^*2, Mehrzad Kiani³ and Reza Shekarriz Fomani⁴

¹MSc in Midwifery, Midwifery Trends Forensic, Nursing and Midwifery college, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

²MSc in Midwifery, Faculty, Nursing and Midwifery college ,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

³MD, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

⁴Department of community Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2382

ABSTRACT: The concept of quality of life, personal and social, is a critical concept and can also be happiness and life satisfaction and is related to factors such as age, education, culture, disease, environment, sex, socioeconomic status. These factors have indeed been associated with the occurrence of abuse. This study’s aim is to determine the correlation between structural social determinants of health and quality of life of women with experience of domestic violence. This was a cross sectional study. The sample for study comprised 102 eligible women who had experienced domestic violence and had approached a social emergency in Tehran, Iran. Data collection tools included demographic questionnaire and socioeconomic status, domestic violence questionnaire and Short -Form26 of quality of life of the World Health Organization. Information obtained from the samples was analyzed by SPSS version 22 and descriptive statistics, independent T-test, chi-square were used. Result didn't show a relationship between quality of life and socio-economic class (p=0.410), quality of life and ethnicity (p>0.05), but significantly statistical relationship (p>0.05) existed between education, income, job and quality of life of women with experience of violence.  Domestic violence could happen in all societies and regardless of level of education, socioeconomic status, income, occupation and various ethnic groups which are components of structural social determinants of health, and finally could have negative effects on mental, physical and social health which are dominant components of the quality of life. Some structural social determinants of health like socioeconomic status cannot fade domestic violence or increase the quality of life of women with domestic violence experience.

KEYWORDS: Domestic violence; quality of life; structural social determinants of health; social emergency

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