Spousal Abuse in Married Couples Proposal
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Domestic violence in the form of spousal abuse is an epidemic in the United States if statistics may be believed. According to The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) more than half of married women (27 million) will experience violence during their marriage (Spousal 1). This number is up from a 1980 study that reported 28% of women had experienced violence at some point in their marriage (Library 1). Others studies confirm that domestic violence is typically male-on-female violence. In a study reported in the Physician Assistant, Jack Kircher reports that “over 90% of the abuse involves men assaulting women” (87). Linda Portier defines domestic violence as “a pattern of coercive control and terror that one person uses over another” (105). Abuse may be verbal, psychological, physical, sexual or even economic. Aside from the statistics, spousal abuse is a major problem for American society because FBI studies also show that 53-% to 70% of the men who abuse their wives also abused a child, and each year 2000-3000 women die at the hands of their husbands (Kircher 88). In addition, battered women used a disproportionate amount of healthcare and social services than women who are in violence-free marriages, from emergency room and hospital visits to mental health care and shelter arrangements. While there is a great deal of research on married women who suffer from domestic abuse in
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imental study are as follows:
Do women in rural areas experience a higher incidence of spousal abuse than their urban counterparts and the national average?; and,
Do minority women in rural areas experience a higher incidence of spousal abuse than their urban counterparts, urban Caucasians, rural Caucasians, other rural minority women, and the national average?
Research Methods
Study Design
A questionnaire will be designed to gather information from the subjects in the following three categories:
Socio-demographic characteristics: age, education, religion, income, employment, current relationship status, reasons for ER visit.
Domestic violence characteristics: onset, frequency, duration, severity, types of abuse, previous abuse, partner’s history of abuse.
Mental health characteristics: depression, suicide ideation, alcohol and drug use, prescription and over-the-counter medications.
The above design is the most feasible in terms of resources, time-frame, and ethical considerations. Longitudinal studies and true experiments are not economically feasible for this researcher, nor are victims of spousal abuse necessarily willing to invite research into their personal lives to the degree such studies require. These designs
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POSITIVES NEGATIVES, Kirshnan Hispanic, Study Design, Southwest Arizona, Literature Review, Linda Portier, English Spanish, Satya Krishnan, Nogales Arizona, Ethical Considerations, spousal abuse, domestic violence, minority women, abuse urban, married women, spousal abuse urban, ethical considerations, victims spousal, emergency departments, married couples, victims spousal abuse, incidence spousal abuse, urban counterparts, women rural experience, abuse urban counterparts,
Approximate Word count = 2483
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)
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