Covid-19Measures and the Exacerbationof Intimate Partner Violence in Calabar
Abstract
This study empirically examines the extent to which the Covid 19 has exacerbationintimate partner violence in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research method was adopted for the study. the purposive and simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 417 participants from Calabar metropolis. The instrument of data collection was the semi-structured self-developed questionnaire. Data collected from the field was analyzed using descriptive and influential statistics at 0.05 level of significance out of the 417 instruments, only 393 was returned and used for analysis. The result from the descriptive analysis revealed that most participants (85%) reported abused during the lockdown. The most common form of abuse was emotional abuse (45.5%). Findings also revealed the rate of abuse was far higher when compared with before the Covid 19 lockdown. From the correlation analysis, result revealed a significant correlation between Covid 19, lockdown and intimate partner violence. The study concludes that COVID 19, the lockdown has significantly increased the incidence of intimate partner violence in Calabar, cross river state. Hence, there is need for the government to include Covid 19 essential services that will focus on intimate partner and other domestic violence response, provide the necessary resource that will make them function properly and identify ways to make them assessable.
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