Intimate Partner Violence Among

Comparative studies are lacking on intimate partner violence (IPV) between urban poor and general populations. The objective of this study is to iden-tify the prevalence and risk factors of physical IPV among the general and poor populations in urban Nepal. A cross-sectional study was conducted by structured questionnaire interview. Participants included 905 ever-married women in Kathmandu aged 15 to 49 years. Of the 905 participants, 680 were randomly selected from general population and 225 were recruited from urban poor population, who lived in purposively selected two communi-ties. The prevalence and association between ever experiencing physical IPV and sociodemographic variables were examined. Results showed that the prevalence of physical IPV was 33.8 % among the urban poor population (n = 225) and 19.9 % among the general population (n = 680; p <.01). Severa