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Table 9: Psychosocial symptoms and perceived causes
Total
SN Psychosocial Problems
(N=54)
%
Causes of Psychosocial Problems
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Anxiety
Fear
Sleeplessness
Loneliness
Sadness
Feels suffocated
Physical torture
Dominates
Feelings of anger
Like to die
Stomach Problem
Restlessness
Like to cry
35
12
7
7
4
5
3
1
1
5
1
2
2
64.8
22.2
13.0
13.0
7.4
9.3
5.6
1.9
1.9
9.3
1.9
3.7
3.7
Source: Free-listing with 54 women in four districts
Worries of taking care of children
Lack of income activities
Wild animals destroy the crops & houses, nothing left to survive on
Husband drinks alcohol and abuse them
Have to do lot of work inside and out side of home
Fear of kidnapping of children
Husband out of home
Backbiting from community people
Polygamy
Displacement
Husband forcefully do sex with wife even she do not like to do
Worry for children's future
Fear of kidnapping of children
Due to old age
No body listens the voice of women
Less dowry lives lower status in the family
Unemployment
Early marriage
Maximum responsibilities
No one listen the voice of women
Difficult to return the loan (interest rates high)
Suspected women of having loose character if she talks with other men
Husband come home drinking and beat wife
Suspected women' character if she talks with other men
Domestic violence
Poverty
Husband was killed in armed conflict
Husband scolds and beat unnecessarily
Not able to manage children needs
Have to care and raise children as husband is far away from
home
Polygamy or separation from husband, Extreme Poverty
Thinking about the future of children
Psychosocial Issues of
Women affected by conflict
29