Instrument details

Instrument Title

DVQ: Domestic Violence Questionnaire

Source Article

Indu,. P.V., Remadevi, S., Vidhukumar, K., Anikumar, T.V., & Subha, N. (2011). Development and validation of the Domestic Violence Questionnaire in married women aged 18-55 years. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 53(3): 218-223

Response Options

5-point Likert scale ranging form 0 (never) to 4 (11 times or more)

Survey Items

Did not permit to meet/interact with female friends
Restricted interaction with your family members
Did not permit to handle money
Did not permit to choose/buy things
Irritate/suspicious/angry if you talked to other men
Accused you of being unfaithful
Treated you like a servant
Did not allow you to partake in decision-making
He kept away form home for days or weeks without informing you/giving you money
He was unfaithful to you/had extra-marital relationship
Did not react against his relatives/agreed with his relatives, when they insulted you
Insulted you in front of others
Threatened to harm you physically
Slapped you
Beat you on other body parts
Twisted your arm/pulled you hair
Kick you/dragged you
Choked you or inflicted burns on you
Ignored you purposely, by not having sexual intercourse with you for weeks
Had sexual intercourse with you forcibly, when you were not interested

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s α = 0.92

Validity

Criterion Validity and Factor Structure

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Terms Of Use

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When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.