Nursing Students' Attitudes About Domestic Violence During the COVID-19 Quarantine Period

Mohammed Fadhil  Ali

doi:10.17605/cajmns.v4i3.1543

Mohammed Fadhil Ali Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Thi-Qar, Thi-Qar, 64001, Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/cajmns.v4i3.1543

Keywords: Nursing students, domestic violence, COVID-19

Abstract

Objective: To identify nursing students’attitudes about domestic violence for the period of the COVID-19 quarantine period .

Methods: Random stratified sample of (120 students) they were taken from the total (510 students) studying in college of nursing at university of Thi-Qar. The subject includes both male and female. After did all consents from college of nursing and university, participant’s consent also was taken, data were collected by self-report method by using approved questionnaire from the period of the 5th April to the 20th of April 2021.

Results: Results of the current study showed that study sample have aged between (19 -22 ), the participants gender (55%) of them were female, and (45%) were male and nursing students' attitude about the situational blame factor was 55.0% approval. nursing students' attitude about the perpetrator blame factor was 73.3% approval.

Conclusion: Results of the current demonstrated that more students (55%) have attitude about the situational blame factor, and (73.3%) of nursing students had attitude about the perpetrator blame factor. The novel Coronavirus spread has created a uncountable of problems for the societies to deal with. A vaccine absence and actual treatment for it, the quarantines that imposed by governments to diminish the extension of it, also, that lead to a inconsistency of social isolation, that comprises matters like economic insecurity, mental health complications, and isolation.

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