摘要：Objective. This research was conducted to evaluate the awareness of individuals registered in a sportscenter about domestic violence.Methods. This research is descriptive cross-sectional. The population of the study was made up ofindividuals over the age of 18 who came to a sports center to do sports and all individuals who agreed toparticipate in the study without going through the sample selection method were included in the sample. 100individuals who agreed to participate in the study constituted the sample of the study. Sociodemographicinformation form and Domestic Violence Awareness Scale were used to collect the data. In the evaluation of thedemographic data of the research, t test and variance analysis test were used to evaluate the relationship betweenthe number and percentage distributions, socio demographic characteristics and the domestic violence awarenessscale.Results. When the socio-demographic characteristics of individuals were examined, the mean age was29.38 ± 2.25, 58.0% were male, 48.0% were primary school graduates, 33.0% were nuclear family, 47.0% weremarried, 43.0% lived in the city for the longest time. 60.0% of individuals perceive their monthly income asgood / medium. When the scores obtained by the individuals from the Domestic Violence Awareness Scale subdimensions are examined, the average score of defining domestic violence is 6.23 ± 1.05, the results of thedomestic violence sub-mean score is 9.23 ± 0.76, the average of the submission of domestic violence sub-scoreThe average score of 13.12 ± 0.82 and the normalization of domestic violence sub-dimension was determined tobe 13.40 ± 0.39. The total score average that individuals received from the awareness of violence in the family is41,98 ± 0.75.Conclusion.I n line with the results obtained from the study;Although the individuals participating inthe research could not correctly define domestic violence, it was observed that they could grasp the results ofdomestic violence, and the majority of the participants did not accept and normalize domestic violence.
