Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #98854

Mika Hasegawa, MNS¹, Yuko Bessho, PhD², Takiko Hosoya, PhD¹, and Yoji Deguchi, PhD¹. (1) School of Nursing, University of Fukui, 23-3, Shimoaizuki, Matsuoka-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, +81-776-61-8566, mikah@fmsrsa.fukui-med.ac.jp, (2) School of Nursing, Kanagawa University of Human Services, 1-10-1, Heisei-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

This study sought the prevalence of intimate partner violence in a local city of Fukui prefecture in Japan, and examined the risk factors of intimate partner violence. We conducted a mail survey on 1,000 subjects in the city aged 20-69. The subjects were randomly sampled from the population of 45,220 that were stratified in 10years of age and sex, and pulled 100 from each group. Two hundred and forty-eight respondents were eligible for the analysis. Self-administered questionnaire included, 1) whether they were victimized or not in terms of physical, sexual, social-economical and psychological violence from the intimate partners, and whether they perpetrated violence or not on their partners, 2) demographic characteristics of the subjects and their partners, 3) the subjects' experience of violence in the family they were grown up. Out of 248 subjects men covered 41.5%. The prevalence rate of any violence experienced from intimate partners was 46.4%, and that of any perpetrated violence on the partners was 43.1%. Women experienced more “sexual violence” from their partners than men did. And men performed more “physical, sexual, and psychological violence” on their partners than women. Those who had been exposed themselves to the violence between the parents or victimized by the parents significantly had more experience of violence from their partners, and more perpetration of violence than those who did not. The results suggest that questioning by health professionals about the experience of violence in the grown up family should be useful for the early detection of intimate partner violence.

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