Obstetric violence in southwestern Turkey: Risk factors and its relationship to postpartum depression.

PATIENT abuse; MATERNAL health services; STATISTICS; POSTPARTUM depression; CONFIDENCE intervals; RESEARCH methodology; CROSS-sectional method; INTIMATE partner violence; RISK assessment; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; T-test (Statistics); QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX crimes; SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; ODDS ratio; INVECTIVE; EDINBURGH Postnatal Depression Scale; PREGNANCY

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between violence, risk factors, and depression at the end of pregnancy. The sample of this descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 426 women for normal postpartum monitoring during the six-month period and living in southwestern Turkey of the study. About 5.6% of the women who participated in the study were exposed to obstetric violence. 5.2% of them were intimate partner violence before pregnancy. 79.1% (n = 24), 29.1%, and 25% of them were subjected to physical, sexual, and economic violence, respectively. In addition, 7.5% of women were exposed to verbal obstetric violence. It was found that the postpartum depression scores of the women who had been subjected to violence from their husbands before pregnancy were high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]