Measuring household maltreatment as a form of gender based violence against women

Ritter, Julie E.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 1:50 PM-3:10 PM

Room 15 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Julie E. Ritter, MPH, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California-San Diego

Authors:
Anita Raj, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Niranjan Saggurti, PhD, Population Council
Saritha Nair, PhD, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
DD Naik, MS, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
Michele R. Decker, ScD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Anindita Dasgupta, MPH, University of California, San Diego
Donta Balaiah, PhD, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
Jay G. Silverman, PhD, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand if a newly developed measure of non-violent abuse is reliable and valid.
Understand the nature of non-violent maltreatment during the perinatal period for women in India.
Understand how non-violent household maltreatment relates to violence against women from both husbands and in-laws during the perinatal period.

Description:
A measure of gender based household maltreatment (i.e., non-violent abuse) was created to assess the experiences of women during the perinatal period within major slums of Mumbai, India. The measure was tested for reliability and face validity- showing to be a promising scale for identify perpetration of gender based household maltreatment against women.