Men's lived experience of domestic violence (qualitative study)

Abstract

Objective: Violence is an unpleasant and harmful behavior towards individuals, families and communities. Domestic violence of couples, especially women against men, is a newer phenomenon that needs research. Accordingly, the main goal of the present study was to study men's lived experience of domestic violence. Materials and Methods: The present research method was qualitative-phenomenological and practical in terms of purpose. The present research method was qualitative-phenomenological and practical in terms of purpose. The participating community included married people in Ilam province, and the research sample (18 people) was selected by purposive sampling considering some criteria of the researcher. Considering the nature of the research method, the rule of theoretical saturation was used for the sample size. The research tool included semi-structured interviews, which were used for the validity of the tool using the formal method and for reliability, the recoding method between the researcher and another researcher was used, and the agreement coefficient between the coders was 0.81. The coding method was also used to analyze the findings. Findings: The findings showed that 32 sub-themes and 6 main themes including (quantitative challenges of having children, body management challenges, female infertility challenges, economic violence, psychological violence and sexual violence) were identified from men's lived experience of domestic violence. Conclusion: It can be concluded that men also experience various types of violence in their married life, that family planners and counselors should analyze its dimensions more in order to better understand this type of violence.