Women’s mental health: acute impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence
| العنوان: | Women’s mental health: acute impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence |
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| المؤلفون: | Soumaya Bourgou, R. Jomli, Sami Ouanes, Uta Ouali, Yosra Zgueb, Sabrine Sediri, Fethi Nacef |
| المصدر: | Archives of Women's Mental Health Archives of Womens Mental Health |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Vienna, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Domestic Violence, Tunisia, Psychological intervention, Intimate Partner Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Anxiety, Psychological Distress, Spouse abuse, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medicine, Humans, Psychological abuse, Psychiatry, Pandemics, Depression (differential diagnoses), Aged, business.industry, Depression, SARS-CoV-2, Mental Disorders, Obstetrics and Gynecology, COVID-19, Middle Aged, Mental illness, medicine.disease, Mental health, Health Surveys, 030227 psychiatry, Coronavirus, Distress, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mental Health, Quarantine, Domestic violence, Original Article, Female, medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Stress, Psychological |
| الوصف: | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a situation of general distress. Although the focus has been initially more on the physical health during the pandemic, mental health concerns linked to the lockdown have quickly risen. This study aims to assess the effect of the COVID-19-related lockdown on Tunisian women's mental health and gender-based violence. An online survey was conducted, using the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21) and the Facebook Bergen Addiction Scale (FBAS). We chose a female-exclusive social group on Facebook and used the snowball sampling method. A total of 751 participants originating from all the Tunisian regions completed the questionnaire. More than half of the participants (57.3%) reported extremely severe distress symptoms, as per the DASS-21. Those who had a history of mental illness and who were allegedly abused during lockdown were found to have more severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Around 40% of women reported problematic social media use. Violence against women also reportedly increased significantly during the lockdown (from 4.4 to 14.8%; p < 0.001). Psychological abuse was the most frequent type of violence (96%). Women who had experienced abuse before the lockdown were at an increased risk of violence during lockdown (p < 0.001; OR = 19.34 [8.71-43.00]). To our knowledge, this is the first study that evaluates the acute impact of COVID-19 on mental health and violence against women in Tunisia, Africa, and the Arab world. It may be a sound basis for developing a more effective psychological intervention aimed at women in these regions. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1435-1102 1434-1816 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2b486614a82248b1de335163a28af47f http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7568008 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2b486614a82248b1de335163a28af47f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14351102 14341816 |
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