Haizana Parween Reyal

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka · Department of Health Promotion

Although plenty of research is conducted to explore the causes of intimate partner violence (IPV), findings are inadequate about the community members' perceptions on IPV. This qualitative study was conducted in a health administrative area of Sri Lanka to explore IPV as perceived by community members in terms of what is IPV, what causes IPV, and w...

Introduction: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women continues to be a silent health problem in Sri Lanka. Studies on IPV across different socio-demographic divisions are limited, thus uniform approaches are used to address IPV despite the varying prevalence across different study settings. Objectives: To compare the prevalence of IPV acros...

Effective approaches are needed to address high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in developing countries. Among them, addressing the attitudes of women justifying IPV is crucial. Yet, Sri Lankan studies so far have not adequately examined the community members’ knowledge and attitude toward IPV. Hence, this study aimed at...

Background Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence experienced by women. It has detrimental consequences. A range of determinants cause intimate partner violence and to reduce it, effective interventions are required to address the determinants. Health promotion interventions have been recommended as effective to enable people...

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health problem. Although both men and women experience IPV, the burden is more on women. To address IPV effectively, it is important to understand the factors that cause IPV including the socioeconomic factors. However, there is an inadequacy of knowledge on how socioeconomic factors a...

ABSTRACT This study examined the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among a sample of 600 ever-married women from a representative health administrative area located in the Kandy district of Sri Lanka. IPV was assessed using the world health organization (WHO) instrument developed for use in the WHO multi-country study on women’s health...

Dramatic increase in television use by Sri Lankans during the past few decades has increased with exposure to attractive and quality television advertising. They serve as the most direct route of marketing strategy used to influence children for their food preferences and to persuade parents for their food choices. Objective of the study is to iden...

Background: Nowadays television plays a major role in providing nutritional information to the human, it moderates the viewer’s attitudes towards the commercial products. Advertisements telecast on television are the most extensively used media to catch the customers’ attention. Recent studies show that there are many significant effect of gender r...

Television advertisements are a direct route to marketing strategy which stimulates children and convince parents for children’s food choices. It has been recognized that positive images about the product can be easily developed through television advertisements (Shamila, 2012). The aim of this study was to identify and qualitatively analyze the so...