@article{DEMİRTAŞ ALPSALAZ_TUĞUT_2023, title={Relationship Between Married Women’s Exposure to Spousal Violence and Their Family Planning Attitudes and Behaviors}, volume={8}, url={https://gevhernesibedergisi.com/index.php/gnj/article/view/259}, DOI={10.5281/zenodo.7600594}, abstractNote={<p>This study was conducted to find out the relationship between married women’s exposure to spousal violence and their attitudes and behaviours towards family planning. The cross-sectional descriptive research design was conducted at four different Family Health Centers in a district in Central Anatolia in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 333 married women aged between 18-49. The research data were collected using the Personal Information Form, Screening Form for Violence against Women and the Attitude Scale for Family Planning. It was found that 58.9% of women used a Family Planning(FP) method, 80.1% of the women who used family planning method preferred modern and 19.9% preferred traditional methods. The modern FP methods used by women are, respectively, 27.1% condoms, 23% pill, and 17.3% intrauterin device(IUD). The attitude score of the women benefitting from family planning was higher than those who did not use any FP method (p<0.05). 35.7% of women were exposed to spousal violence and 11.4% had the risk of experiencing violence. It was found that 18.3% of women were subjected to verbal, 12.6% economic, 10.5% physical, and 7.5% sexual violence by their partners. The attitude score of women exposed to spousal violence towards family planning was lower than those who were not exposed to violence (p<0.05). It was found that most of the women had positive attitudes towards family planning but their behaviour was not desirable, about one-third of the women were exposed to violence, and those who were exposed to violence had negative attitudes to family planning.</p>}, number={1}, journal={GEVHER NESIBE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES}, author={DEMİRTAŞ ALPSALAZ, Süheyla and TUĞUT, Nilüfer}, year={2023}, month={Feb.}, pages={14–24} }