Domestic Abuse: A Critical Comparison of Nurses' Role in UK and India

DOMESTIC ABUSE

INTRODUCTION
Diffusion from DOH (Department of Health)
According to DOH, the definition of domestic abuse is as follow:
“Any incident of controlling, threatening behaviour or any kind of
abuse and violence which happened with that person who is having
16 year age or more then it, by his family members or partners
regardless of gender or sexuality”. The abuse can be psychological,
sexual, emotional, physical or financial (Domestic violence and
abuse ,2015).
Domestic violence is a kind of behaviour which includes violence
and other abuses by a person in the opposite of another in the
situation of relationship or in marriage (What is Domestic
Violence?., 2015).

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Purpose: To gain and hold the control over a person by someone.
The following study has been conducted to know the domestic
violence and its impact of an individual one and society. This
particular area has been selected for study because it helps reader
to understand critical comparison between nurses role in UK and
India in terms of solving domestic violence issue. (O'hare, 2014).
Result of domestic violence: physical injury; psychological trauma
and many times, victim reaches at the stage of death.

Statistics of domestic abuse in UK:
 More than 2.1 million people every year suffer from
different kinds of domestic abuse in which 1.4 million are
females and 700,000 are males .Travis (2015).
 Every year, more than 100, 000 people are facing serious
injuries because of continuous domestic abuse.
 As per the statistics of 2013-14, the recorded domestic
abuse cases in England and Wales are around 887,000
(Top ten facts about domestic abuse in England and
(Wales 2015).

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(Source: Hines, Brown and Dunning, 2007)

Types of Domestic Abuse
(Source: Hines, Brown and Dunning, (2007)