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By Daniel J. DeNoon




In most of the world, 29 percent to 62 percent of women have suffered physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner. More often than not, the violence is severe. For half of these women, the abuse continues.

The appalling numbers come from a remarkable study led by World Health Organization researchers Claudia Garcia-Moreno, MD; Henrica A.F.M. Jansen, PhD; and colleagues. The researchers trained a small army of more than 500 female interviewers who met with more than 24,000 15-to 49-year-old women at 15 sites in 10 countries.

The women, randomly selected to represent the region in which they lived, spoke privately with the interviewers. The interviewers were armed with fake questionnaires in case a husband burst into the room. Sometimes they held decoy interviews with male household members to keep them busy while they spoke with the women.

'One of the very striking things we found during the study was that 20 percent to 60 percent of the women mentioned they had never talked with anybody else about this before,' Jansen tells WebMD. 'A woman in Peru said being interviewed made her feel herself to be a ves"

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