Evaluation of Partner Violence and Depression Tendency in Married Women in During the COVID-19 Pandemic Process

Domestic violence has become widespread in Turkey as well as all over the world during the COVID-19 process. Home isolation has been recommended as the safest measure to protect against the virus and not infect others during the pandemic period. However, homes, where everyone should feel safe, have become very risky places for women who are exposed to violence. For this reason, this study was conducted to evaluate partner engviolence and depression tendency in married women in Eskisehir province during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted with 573 married women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Husband Violence against Women Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory were applied to the sample group. The mean age of women was 39.7, the mean length of marriage was 12.7, and the mean age of the spouse was 43.1. Women's age, education level, economic level, alcohol consumption by the partner, how marriage started, the length of the marriage, and the effect of the pandemic on the relationship were found to affect violence scores (p<0.05). The mean score of participants on the husband violence against women scale was 26.6, and the mean depression score was 9.1. In our study, there was a weak positive relationship between women's mean partner violence scores and their depression levels.