Claire Hawcroft|Rachael A. Hughes|Amira Shaheen|Jinan Usta|Hannah Elkadi|Tom Dalton|Khadijah Ginwalla|Gene Feder
Prevalence and health outcomes of domestic violence amongst clinical populations in Arab countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
University of Bristol|University of Bristol|An-Najah National University|American University of Beirut Medical Center|University of Bristol|University of Bristol|University of Bristol|University of Bristol
estimated 30 women worldwide experience intimate partner violence ipv lifetime exposure ipv associated poor health outcomes prevalence violence may higher amongst women seeking healthcare existing evidence arab region limited conducted systematic review metaanalysis prevalence health outcomes domestic violence ipv violence family member clinical populations arab countries using terms related domestic violence arab countries date limit year 2000 searched seven databases medline embase psycinfo cinahl web science core collection ibss westlaw imemr included observational studies reporting estimates prevalence health outcomes domestic violence amongst women aged 15 years recruited accessing healthcare arab countries studies collected data onafter 1st january 2000 published english arabic french included titleabstract screening full text screening quality assessment data extraction carried extracted data summarised metaanalysis performed appropriate 6341 papers screened 41 papers 29 studies met inclusion criteria total 19101 participants 10 countries represented data metaanalysis produced pooled prevalence estimates lifetime exposure type ipv 733 95 ci 641816 physical ipv 356 95 ci 244475 sexual ipv 22 95 ci 13332 emotionalpsychological ipv 498 95 ci 373623 domestic violence ipv family violence exposure associated increased odds adverse health outcomes depression 33 95 ci 1764 sleep problems 32 95 ci 1568 abortion 35 95 ci 12102 pain 26 95 ci 1641 hypertension 16 95 ci 1220 domestic violence common amongst women seeking healthcare arab countries exposure domestic violence associated several poor health outcomes research domestic violence arab world required systematic review protocol registered prospero crd42017071415