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Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres1,2,3, María Aurora Rodríguez-Borrego3,4,5, Pedro Manuel Rodríguez-Muñoz3,6
1Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.
Abstract:
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important public health problem. Female victims of IPV do not always use the institutional resources available to them. We conducted a cross-sectional study using data from the Spanish 2014 Macro-Survey on Violence Against Women. The findings show that 15% of the survey participants suffered from IPV in the last year. The factors associated with a higher probability of suffering IPV are being of non-Spanish nationality, being a student, having a low-educational level, having no income, being the household head, and not having a current partner. Regarding the resources used by women subjected to IPV, almost half resorted to informal sources, such as female friends and/or their own mothers. The use of formal resources was low. Therefore, IPV continues to be a problem in Spain that seems to remain in the private domain. Consequently, it is necessary to increase the availability of and access to legal resources.
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