Prevalence of violence against women of child bearing age and its reporting status

Objective: to study the magnitude and reporting status of inter personal violence against women of child bearing age. methodology: hospital based descriptive study of medico legal violence against women of child bearing age and compared to date of violence collected through house hold survey in a specified population in the same calendar year / period. result: a total of 3150 cases of violence were recorded out of them only 500 reported to police and out of these,322 were sent to hospital for medico-legal examination. it was observed that reported violence was 3 per 1000 women of child bearing age as compared to actual violence cases of 20 per 1000 women. among the various types of violence,physical violence was more common (56%) in comparison to sexual (26.5%),psychological violence (9.5%) while mixed violence (8%). it was further observed that,majority of the accused for physical violence were relatives with 70 % being husbands,majority (87%) of accused of sexual violence were cousins similarly (93%) of accused for psychological violence were cousins / other relatives while,majority (94%) of the accused for mixed violence were unknown. it was also noted that 96% of accused of physical violence cases,84% of sexual violence cases,77% of mixed violence,and 82% of psychological violence cases belonged to education level of below matric. it was too observed that 96% of physical violence cases,91% of sexual,84% of mixed and 89% of psychological violence cases were form families with monthly income of less that 10000 / month.