Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, July-September 2021, Vol. 15, No. 3 1823 Effectiveness of an Educational Program Directing toward the Domestic Violence Behavior among Secondary School Students Amena Razzaq Jasim 1 , Arkan Bahlol Naji 2 1 PhD(C), 2 Professor, University of Baghdad, College of Nursing, Community Health Nursing Department, Baghdad, Iraq Abstract Background: Domestic violence is now considered as a global health issue. It is defned as a threat or physical, psychological and/or emotionally violent act. Methods: An experimental design was used to guide this study. The study was conducted at three secondary schools for girls from Al-Mahmudiya district. The study included a sample of 200) secondary school student girls who were randomly selected. The education program is implemented through three sessions. Each session is scheduled for 45-minutes. Study instrument: A questionnaire was adopted from Elabani (2015). The behaviors considered as domestic violence against women scale was used to measure behaviors that women consider them implying domestic violence against them. The study results revealed that was a (a priori p = 0.01) signifcant difference in the domestic violence as a behavior over time for participants in the study group. The omnibus effect (measure of association) for this analysis is .883, which indicates that approximately 88% of the total variance in the domestic violence as a behavior values is accounted for by the variance in the administered intervention. Conclusion : The implemented program positively affected the values of the domestic violence as a behavior, for the study group by time compared to the control group. Keywords: Domestic Violence Behavior; Educational Program Introduction Domestic violence is now considered as a global health issue (1) . It is defned as a threat or physical, psychological and/or emotionally violent act; that is, any kind of violence against others with the intention of injuring or demonstrating power and exercising control over them (2) . According to the WHO (3) , domestic violence against female is violence; behavior, within an intimate relationship that causes of physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviors. Jewkes (4) substantiates that domestic violence is the inficting of physical injury, sexual, psychological or economic violence by a family member or intimate partner, irrespective of whether they lived together or not. To Okolo (5) , violence could be everywhere in the world today and violence against female is different from context, even though there has been great change overtime. In Iraq, at secondary school female students experience a moderate level of abusive behaviors (6) . Corresponding author: Arkan Bahlol Naji, University of Baghdad, College of Nursing, Community Health Nursing Department, Baghdad, Iraq, Email: arkan_nagi_web2009@yahoo.com