Özet:

Violence against women is a violation of human rights and one of the most important health problems of 21st century. It is aimed to determine the frequency and influencing factors of intimate partner violence among women, who have different professional status, educational levels, working in a medical school and its hospital. The prevalence of psychological, physical, economic and sexual violence at least once was 91.8%, 19.0%, 22.9%, and 4.2% respectively for women who were married or had partner in our study. Despite prevalence of violence was lower than national studies, intimate partner violence especially psychological violence was an important problem. If women’s educational levels increased, economic, physical and sexual violence decreased and if profession status of women improved, psychological, economic and sexual violence decreased significantly. Improving women’s profession status seems to be an important intervention area, but it was an important finding that it did not decrease physical violence. While men’s educational level increased, economic, physical and sexual violence decreased, therefore educating men is seen as a primary intervention area to lessen the violence.

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