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The World Health Organization (WHO, 2001:1) views domestic violence as the world's most prevalent form of human rights violation with devastating effects on both the physical and mental well-being of these victims, mostly women. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the mental health effects of domestic violence as experienced by women utilising a mobile primary healthcare (PHC) clinic in a low socio-economic area in Gauteng, South Africa. A qualitative, contextual, explorative and descriptive research design was followed. The study was conducted in a mobile PHC in a low socio-economic area in Gauteng. Participants were selected purposefully from the women attending this clinic. Data were collected by conducting ten semi-structured interviews when data saturation occurred. The transcribed interviews and field notes were analysed using Tesch's method of qualitative data analysis.
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