AU - Taghdisi, Mohammad Hossein AU - Latifi, Marzieh AU - Afkari, Mohammad Eshagh AU - Dastoorpour, Maryam AU - Estebsari, Fatemeh AU - Jamalzadeh, Fiesal TI - The Impact of Educational Intervention to Increase Self Efficacy and Awareness for the Prevention of Domestic Violence Against Women PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - Iran-J-Health-Educ-Health-Promot JN - Iran-J-Health-Educ-Health-Promot VO - 3 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-173-en.html 4100 - http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-173-en.pdf SO - Iran-J-Health-Educ-Health-Promot 1 AB  - Background and objective:Violence against women are commonly seenthroughout the world. Studies showed that violence is related to self-efficacy. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the effect of an educational intervention to increase self-efficacy and awareness for the prevention of domestic violence against women in the Gorgan city, Iran. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was designed with pre-and post-test on 91 married women under the aegis ofthe Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) in Gorgan in winter and spring of 2012-2013. Tools for gathering data includeddemographic information, General self-Efficacy questionnaire and a questionnaire about awareness of violence. Based on the results of the pretest, the educational contentwas prepared. Post-test was conducted 40 days later, after 3 educational sessions. Using SPSS16and analytical test such as the paired t-test data were analyzed. Results: The mean age of subjects were 37.37±12.13 years. The scores means of self-efficacy (p CP - IRAN IN - Dept. of Health education & Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti Univ. of Medical Sciences (SBUMS), Tehran, Iran LG - eng PB - Iran-J-Health-Educ-Health-Promot PG - 32 PT - Research YR - 2015