Table 2 Prevalence of lifetime and past year emotional abuse by intimate partner against women
From: Intimate partner violence against women in the Erbil city of the Kurdistan region, Iraq
Type of violence | Prevalence (n = 800) | Frequency of violence | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Once | 2 – 5 times | >5 times | ||||||
| Â | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) |
Lifetime (overall) | 421 | (52.6) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Insult | 320 | (40.0) | 8 | (2.5) | 131 | (40.9) | 181 | (56.6) |
Scaring/intimidation | 306 | (38.3) | 11 | (3.6) | 126 | (41.2) | 169 | (55.2) |
Humiliation | 165 | (20.6) | 4 | (2.4) | 34 | (20.6) | 127 | (77.0) |
Threatening to remarry | 101 | (12.6) | 2 | (2.0) | 28 | (27.7) | 71 | (70.3) |
Threatening to harm | 96 | (12.0) | 4 | (4.2) | 21 | (21.8) | 71 | (74.0) |
Threatening to divorce | 92 | (11.5) | 6 | (6.5) | 19 | (20.7) | 67 | (72.8) |
Past year (overall) | 326 | (43.3) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Insult | 243 | (32.3) | 7 | (2.9) | 110 | (45.3) | 126 | (51.8) |
Scaring/intimidation | 238 | (31.6) | 8 | (3.4) | 114 | (47.9) | 116 | (48.7) |
Humiliation | 130 | (17.3) | 2 | (1.5) | 37 | (28.5) | 91 | (70.0) |
Threatening to remarry | 66 | (8.8) | 5 | (7.6) | 16 | (24.2) | 45 | (68.2) |
Threatening to harm | 61 | (8.1) | 5 | (8.2) | 13 | (21.3) | 43 | (70.5) |
Threatening to divorce | 55 | (7.3) | 4 | (7.3) | 13 | (23.6) | 38 | (69.1) |