Intimate Partner Violence in Women of Alcoholic Spouses

The focus of this research work is to throw light on the influence of alcohol in men who are involved in intimate partner violence among the spouses of these men on administration of domestic violence questionnaire and Mini plus to rule out comorbid psychiatric illness. A cross sectional study comprising of 50 spouses of patients diagnosed as ADS as per ICD 10 admitted in Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru for de addiction treatment. Results of the domestic violence questionnaire and Mini plus were verified to get an in-depth picture of the domains of domestic violence revealing all women in this study suffered domestic violence and economic abuse being the maximum among the abuse pattern and major depressive disorder with past suicidal attempts in these spouses was revealed.