Perspectives about women's abuse between a sample of male and female workers at Hadhramout University, al-Mukalla city, Yemen Abdulla Saeed Al-Hanshi,Gamalat Mustafa Abd El-Ghany, NwaL Saeed Banafa, Yahya Khamis Almualm

Abstract

Background and Objective: Abuse of woman by their intimate partner remains a major social and public health problem that has serious physical, psychological and sexual consequences.

The present study was aimed to assess perspectives of males and women workers at Hadhramout University about Women's Abuse.

A comparative cross-sectional descriptive design was used for conduction of the study.

Materials and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 240 (males and females) workers in Hadhramout University and its colleges.

Tools used in the study included open-ended in depth interview questionnaire sheet that were used to collect data.

Results obtained from this study revealed that the most common type of abuse was emotional abuse in the form of humiliation and women's negligence according to perspectives of participants and its important causes were personality traits of husband, personality traits of women and also, intervention of others on their problems, and stresses of life.

The result of this study showed that (8.3% and 7.5%) of males compared to (10% and 1.7%) of females mentioned that the most common types of women abuse were humiliation and women's negligence, and 13.3% of males and 8.3% of females reported that lack of self-esteem was the common psychological effect of women's abuse on the children life.

Conclusion: The comply religious rules and communication with both couple were the best ways to control of women's abuse according to participants' perspectives and also, most (61.3%) of female and male suggest combined solution to control of women's abuse.