Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 6 , Pages 453-462 , November 2008

Angry Wives, Abusive Husbands: Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Psychosocial Variables

  • Farooq Naeem, MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Sheikh Zayed Medical College & Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan
    • ,
  • Muhammad Irfan, MA

      Affiliations

    • Lahore Institute of Research and Development, Lahore, Pakistan
    • ,
  • Qaiser A. Zaidi, MBBS, MRCPshych

      Affiliations

    • South Staffordshire & Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust, England
    • ,
  • David Kingdon, MBBCh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital & Southampton University, Southampton, England
    • ,
  • Muhammad Ayub, MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych

      Affiliations

    • St Luke's Hospital, Middlesbrough, England
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Muhammad Ayub, Flatts Lane Centre, Flatts Lane Normanby, Middlesbrough, England TS6 0SZ; Phone: +44-1642-3454.

Received 25 November 2007 ,Revised 14 July 2008 ,Accepted 6 August 2008.

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 Funded by the ‘Gender Equality Programme’ of the Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom. The ‘Gender Equality Programme’ was managed by the British Council, Islamabad. The Department for International Development or British Council had no influence on the design of the project or any aspect of the analysis or writing of this paper.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.08.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 6 , Pages 453-462 , November 2008

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