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Table 4 Percentage of women reporting IPV, ever and past year, by type, population-based surveys from journals

From: Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in the Arab world: a systematic review

Country

Lead author, publication year

Year(s) data collected

Risk of bias¥ score

Physical

Sexual

Emotional/psychological

Physical, sexual and/or emotional/ psychological unless noted

 

Ever

Past year

Ever

Past year

Ever

Past year

Ever

Past year

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

Egypt

Diop Sidibe 2006

1995

3

34

16a

–

–

–

–

–

–

 

Habib 2011

2009

3

29.9b

–

7.8c

–

6.6d

–

57.4

–

Hassan 2004

NA

2

11.2

10.5

–

–

10.5 severe

10.8e severe

–

–

Seedhom 2012

2010

1

30.3

–

7.3

–

49.3

–

60.4

–

Yount 2014

2012

3

–

–

–

–

–

–

67f

–

Yount 2005

1995/97

4

26.8

9.1

–

–

–

–

–

–

Jordan

Al-Badayneh 2012

2006

4

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

98

 

Khawaja 2005

1999

3

42.5g

19.2

–

–

–

–

–

–

Shakhatreh 2005

NA

6

5 (timeframe unspecified)

–

–

10 (timeframe unspecified)

–

–

Lebanon

Khawaja 2004

1999

5

22.0h

9.1i

–

–

–

–

–

–

Palestine

Haj-Yahia 2000

1994

3

–

52

–

37.6

–

91

–

–

 

Haj-Yahia 2000

1995

3

–

54

–

40

–

87.2*

–

–

Clark 2010

2005/6

2

–

22.2

–

10.6

–

61.6

–

–

Sudan

Ali 2014

2014

3

–

33.5

–

17.0

–

30.1 psych.

47.6% verbal

–

–

Syria

Tappis 2012

2009

5

6*‡

4.7*‡

–

–

14.6*‡ verbal

5.1*‡ emotional

11.5*‡ verbal

3*‡ emotional

30P/E‡

17P/E‡

  1. ¥Risk of bias was scored from 0 to 11 with 0 meaning the least risk of bias and 11 meaning the highest
  2. *Percentage calculated by authors based on published numbers of women reporting that form of IPV
  3. ‡Included violence by any household/family members, including husbands
  4. P/E Physical and/or emotional
  5. a. Figure for currently married women extracted from Diop Sidibe et al. [20]
  6. b. Percentage of women who reported physical violence only with no sexual or emotional violence
  7. c. Sexual only, no emotional or physical
  8. d. Emotional only, no physical or sexual
  9. e. Limited to women currently living with a husband
  10. f. Rate for physical and/or sexual violence ever was 54%
  11. g. Husbands reported 48.9%
  12. h. 29.5% of husbands reported physical violence against wives; in 32.9% of couples, at least one member reported physical IPV against wives
  13. i. 10.4% of husbands reported sexual IPV against wives; in 12.9% of couples, at least one member reported sexual IPV against wives