Table 5

Percentages of the complete agreement on items reaching > 50% complete agreement by group of respondents

Potential triggers, causes and consequences

All

Experience of non-physical violence^a

Occupation

Husband's education

Husband's ethnicity

Yes

No

House wife

Work or study

Up to grade 8

High school

Graduate

Kurd

Fars

Lak

Number of respondents^b

435

319

115

373

62

181

159

94

294

73

56

Triggers

Unpleasant verbal communication

88.5

89.3

87.0

89.0

85.5

89.0

89.3

86.2

87.4

87.7

94.6

Unsuitable clothes

86.9

88.1

84.3

88.7*

75.8*

90.1*

86.8

80.9*

85.7

89.0

91.1

Suspicion of infidelity

75.9

77.4

72.2

76.9

69.4

78.5

74.8

72.3

75.2*

69.9°

87.5*°

Arguing back

72.9

76.5°

63.5°

75.1*

59.7*

80.7*

73.6°

57.4*°

71.8

78.1

73.2

Not obeying

69.2

72.7°

59.1°

71.8*

53.2*

77.9*

68.6°

54.3*°

68.4

75.3

69.6

Quarrel about in-laws

65.7

69.6°

55.7°

67.8*

53.2*

67.4*

70.4°

55.3*°

65.0

71.2

66.1

Causes

Addiction

92.2

92.8

91.3

92.8

88.7

93.4

91.8

90.4

93.2

90.4

91.1

Mental disease

88.7

91.2°

82.6°

90.1*

80.6*

89.5

87.4

89.4

89.8

86.3

85.7

Unemployment

83

83.4

82.6

83.4

80.6

82.9

84.9

79.8

82.0

90.4

78.6

Unsatisfying sexual relationship

75.9

74.6

80.0

76.7

71.0

77.9

76.1

72.3

73.1

80.8

82.1

Husband's work problems

62.1

63.9

57.4

64.9*

45.2*

66.3*

67.9°

44.7*°

61.6

65.8

57.1

Age difference

53.3

54.5

50.4

54.7

45.2

56.9

52.2

48.9

51.4

61.6

51.8

Marital conflict

53.3

54.2

51.3

51.7

62.9

53.0

52.2

55.3

52.7

60.3

53.6

Consequences

Mental problems of children

81.4

82.1

80.0

83.1*

71.0*

84.5*

83.0°

72.3*°

81.3

86.3

75.0

Mental problems of wife

80.2

81.8

76.5

82.3*

67.7*

84.5*

81.8°

69.1*°

80.6

82.2

78.6

Learning problems of children

69.9

69.9

70.4

71.0

62.9

74.6

67.9

63.8

68.4*

82.2*°

58.9°

Inability of wife/mother to do her duties

67.4

68.7

64.3

70.8*

46.8*

71.8*

71.7°

51.1*°

68.7

68.5

62.5

Mental problems of husband

63.2

66.5°

54.8°

63.3

62.9

61.3

64.2

64.9

62.6

71.2

57.1

Marital instability

61.8

64.6

54.8

63.3

53.2

61.3

66.0

55.3

62.2

67.1

55.4

a) Which may not be considered as violence in the study area.

b) Number of respondents is not equal to 435 in some sub-groups because of missing answers.

*° figures with each of these symbols have significant differences with each other in their sub-group (they are in bold fonts).

Hamzeh et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:209   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-209