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International Journal of
Population Studies Men’s experience of IPV during COVID-19 lockdown

Table 2. (Continued)
References Region/ Prevalence rate Type Consequences/Findings
Country
lack of counseling for male victims.
Groups representing female victims
were convened, but no group spoke
for the voices of male victims; debates
and bill on domestic abuse were also
discussed.
ManKind Initiative / Visit frequency to the webpage of the / Various bills at the committee stage
Briefing 8 initiative in the 1 week of June was mentioned 741 female victims, while
st
(June 8 – 21, 2020) 115% higher than the level during the males were only mentioned 52 times
pre-coronavirus period. (minimization).
BBC News (September England Charity organizations dealing with men / /
24, 2020; https:// (UK) suffering from domestic violence who
www.bbc.com/news/ sought help during the lockdown period
uk-england-54237409) reported an increase of up to 60%.
Approximately 22 emails and 92 phone
calls were received by male victims per
day as the lockdown continued from
April to June.
Contact with victims of abuse through
email increased and other services
increased by 96% from 372 emails in
June 2019 to 728 in June 2020.
Gleeson, 2020 Australia One reported case Physical/emotional abuse Victims’ narrative: “I think most people
think domestic violence doesn’t happen to
men, that men are the stronger sex and
so it won’t happen to them. But having
experienced it first hand, I feel there’s not
a lot of support for men, there’s not much
help out there at all.”
Mazza et al., 2020 Worldwide Lower-severity case reported Physical abuse This study indicated that IPV
experienced by men was of “lower
severity.”
Brooks, 2020 UK / Male victims experienced There was a serious lack of awareness by
emotional abuse such the male victims on the severity of the
as monitoring of their IPV perpetrated by their partners.
spending by their spouse,
food deprivation, and
withholding of important
personal gadgets such as
computers and telephones.
Office of National UK About 16 male victims were killed Physical abuse Mortality of male victims of abuse was
Statistics (2020) between 2018 and 2019, while 80 female under-reported.
victims were killed in the same period.
Gama et al., 2021 Portugal Domestic violence was reported by both All forms of IPV Although women were more
men (12.3%) and women (14.2%). Physical, sexual, emotional predisposed to any form of domestic
violence against a partner than men,
the observed differences were not
statistically significant.
Sharma & India More men reported having been abused / No significant difference was found
Khokhar, 2021 (7.7%) than women (7.3%) during the between the domestic violence (DV)
lockdown period. level of males and females.
Nwosu, 2021 Nigeria In Lagos, Nigeria, the government Physical violence
reported 89 physical domestic violence
(Cont’d...)

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