期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：1
页码：1-5
DOI：10.26444/aaem/92208
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction and objective. The study on domestic violence in rural areas of Western Pomerania (Poland), carried out
in October 2017, aimed at determining the scale of domestic violence against the elderly, taking into account its 5 forms:
psychological, physical, economic and sexual violence, as well as negligence.
Materials and method. The research concept was implemented with the use of a representative sampling method by
means of a questionnaire-based audit interview, and using research tools to measure the social scale of the phenomenon
of domestic violence, the victims of which were the elderly from one of the rural communes of Western Pomerania.
Results. The basic results of the survey were as follows: 1) 40.1% of seniors reported experiencing violence from their family
members; 2) 36.5% experienced psychological violence and 21.9% – negligence; 3) 8.8% were victims of economic violence
and 5.1% – of physical violence; 4) sexual abuse was the least frequently reported – 0.7%.
Conclusions. Domestic violence in rural areas could affect as many as 40% of seniors. Generally, they admitted to experiencing
one of the 5 forms of violence distinguished in the study, of which acts of psychological violence were predominant.
Negligence and economic violence were relatively less frequent. Physical violence was even less prevalent. On the other
hand, 8.1% of seniors experienced 3–4 forms of violence, which could be considered as a situation of increased risk of
pathologisation of their family life.
