Wenzhong Chen1, Yuping Cao2, Guoyi Guo3, Yu Zhang2, Qiao Mao4, Shengqi Sun5, Huan Yang2, Yalin Zhang2, Xingguang Luo6. 1. Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. 2. Department of psychiatry of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Changsha, China. 3. Xiangtan Vocational & Technical College, Xiangtan, Hunan, China. 4. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan, China. 5. Mental Hospital of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Yongshun, Hunan, China. 6. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Domestic violence is increasing in China. To explore the effective intervention, we intervened three large independent Chinese communities with different approaches over an eight-year period from 2005 to 2012, with a fourth independent community as a peer control. METHODS: The intervention approaches included the psychological intervention with traditional Chinese culture characteristics, the social governance and the poverty relief. The statistical analysis was performed in 2017. RESULTS: We found that while the prevalence of domestic violence kept growing in the control community, it significantly declined in the other three target communities. Among these intervention approaches, the social governance was the most effective, whereas it resulted in the lowest happiness index. CONCLUSION: This continuous, long-period, prospective and large-scale study showed that these approaches could significantly reduce domestic violence.
BACKGROUND: Domestic violence is increasing in China. To explore the effective intervention, we intervened three large independent Chinese communities with different approaches over an eight-year period from 2005 to 2012, with a fourth independent community as a peer control. METHODS: The intervention approaches included the psychological intervention with traditional Chinese culture characteristics, the social governance and the poverty relief. The statistical analysis was performed in 2017. RESULTS: We found that while the prevalence of domestic violence kept growing in the control community, it significantly declined in the other three target communities. Among these intervention approaches, the social governance was the most effective, whereas it resulted in the lowest happiness index. CONCLUSION: This continuous, long-period, prospective and large-scale study showed that these approaches could significantly reduce domestic violence.
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Keywords:
Chinese communities; Domestic violence; intervention; prospective study; social governance
Authors: Zhaohui Su; Dean McDonnell; Ali Cheshmehzangi; Junaid Ahmad; Hengcai Chen; Sabina Šegalo; Yuyang Cai Journal: Front Public Health Date: 2022-03-04