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Table 8: Supportive factors
SN
Group or Event N=54 %
1 Saving and Credit group/ Cooperative
2 Mothers and women groups
3 Unity of women /Parma
4 Not supported
5 Social structure (School, Health Post)
6 Popular (Janamukhi) Education Center
Sources: Free-listing with 54 women
21
34
4
11
5
2
38.9
63.0
7.4
20.4
9.3
3.7
It was found, women felt good while talking
and singing the songs with their friends
during the parma. Majority of the women
were engaged in different nature of women's
groups. Some of them were in saving and
credit groups from where they received
financial support in minimum interest.
While, some others were in mothers group
and women were supported if there was
any injustice to them by family members
and community people.
CONSEQUENCES FOR
PSYCHOSOCIAL
WELLBEING
A majority of the women mentioned
different psychosocial problems which
were the results of social issues such as those
discussed above. For most gender based
discrimination, societal structure and
poverty has been the major cause of their
psychosocial problems. Women played the
role of subordinate in their homes. Some
shared that after their husbands returned
home from drinking alcohol and gambling,
women reported to be frightened by the
behavior of their husbands. Often women
were dominated by men saying that they
could not do anything and some husbands
accused them of planning to elope if they
talked with other men. Women also
mentioned that they had fear of being
sexually exploited or abused while
collecting grass and wood in the jungle.
It was identified that most of the symptoms
reported by women were related to
emotions which are placed in the heart (man
in Nepali language). Anxiety (chinta), fear
(dar), sense of isolation (eklopan), sadness
(dukha, pir) and sleeplessness (anindra) are
commonly reported psychological
problems of women. As reaction to their
problems women reported becoming angry
with family members and not wanting to
listen to any one. Symptoms were reported
differently but the causes mentioned were
often similar.
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Psychosocial Issues of
Women affected by conflict