婚姻暴力受虐婦女的身體症狀

Somatic Symptoms of Battered Women in Domestic Violence

黃志中(Joh-Jong Huang) ； 陳三能(San-Neng Chen) ； 黃旼儀(Ming-Yii Huang) ； 張淳茜(Chun-Chien Chang) ； 鄧淑如(Shu-Ju Teng) ； 陳建州(Chien-Chou Chen) ； 黃瑛琪(Ying-Chi Huang) ； 張高賓(Kao-Pin Chang)

《台灣家庭醫學雜誌》 14卷1期 (2004/03) Pp. 25-34

https://doi.org/10.7023/TJFM.200403.0025

摘要

由於婚姻暴力的創傷，使得受虐婦女遭受許多的身體症狀困擾。國內對於婚姻暴力的研究，尚無對此一議題有系統的報告。為瞭解受虐婦女身體症狀，對於其暴力相關因素予以探討，本研究回溯性收集民國90年1月至91年12月期間，因婚姻暴力身體虐待而至某綜合醫院家庭醫學科就醫的受虐婦女，共計197人，其平均年齡為36.6±8.1歲，平均婚齡為12.0±8.5年，而平均總施虐時間為8.5±7.7年。全部個案中，有187人(94.9%)表示存有經常性地被一項以上的身體症狀所困擾。最常發生的身體症狀前三名為：睡眠障礙(73.6%)、肌肉骨骼疼痛(67.0%)、頭痛(58.4%)。比較各項婚姻暴力相關事項與身體症狀之有無，結果顯示總施虐時間、生育子女數、合併兒童虐待以及婚姻強暴等四項與身體症狀之有無達統計上的顯著差異，尤其以婚姻強暴為最。藉由對於受虐婦女身體症狀的暸解，將有助於醫療人員提供受虐婦女更完善的醫療服務。

並列摘要

Battered women significantly suffer more somatic symptoms than non-battered women. The purpose of this study was to identify the battered women's distinctions of the somatic symptoms in Taiwan. From Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2002 in a general hospital's family medicine department, we retrospectively reviewed the battered women's medical records and sampled 197 cases. In those samples, the average age of battered woman was 36.6±8.1 years. The mean duration of marriage was 12.0±8.5 years. The mean duration of being battered was 8.5±7.7 years. In addition, 187(94.9%) had at least one somatic symptom frequently. The most common three symptoms were sleep problems, musculoskeletal illness, and headache. Compared with the presence of somatic symptoms, the most significant variable was marital rape; while, the less significant variables were the duration of domestic violence, number of children, and combined child abuse.
In conclusion, it is clear that battered women suffer much from domestic violence and have many sequelae of somatic symptoms. Therefore, health professionals should be familiar with these somatic symptoms to provide more comprehensive care to battered women.

並列關鍵字

domestic violence ； battered woman ； somatic symptom

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