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Unperceived intimate partner violence and women's health

Sonego, Michela; Gandarillas, Ana; Zorrilla, Belén; Ordobás, María; Lasheras, Luisa; Pires, Marisa; Anes, Ana.
Gac. sanit. (Barc., Ed. impr.) ; 27(5): 440-446, sept.-oct. 2013. tab
Artigo em Inglês | IBECS (Espanha) | ID: ibc-116024

Objective:

Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) often do not perceive themselves as abused. This study sought to estimate the health effects of unperceived IPV (uIPV), taking violence-free women as the reference, and to compare the effects of uIPV with those of perceived IPV (pIPV).

Method:

We performed a cross-sectional population study through telephone interviews of 2835 women aged 18 to 70 years living in the region of Madrid and having an ongoing intimate partner relationship or contact with a former partner in the preceding year. Based on 26 questions from the Conflict Tactics Scale-1 and the Enquête Nacional sur les Violences envers les Femmes en France and the question "Do you feel abused by your partner?" a variable was constructed in three categories, namely, the absence of IPV, uIPV and pIPV. Using logistic regression, we analyzed the association between health problems, medication use, health-service utilization and IPV (perceived and unperceived) vis-à-vis the absence of IPV.

Results:

There were 247 cases of uIPV and 96 of pIPV (prevalences of 8.8% and 3.4%, respectively). The multivariate analysis showed that a substantial number of the outcomes explored were associated with uIPV, pIPV, or both. The highest odds ratios (ORs) were obtained for depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 > 10) (uIPV OR 3.4, 95% CI 2.4-3.8; and pIPV 4.1, 95%CI 2.5-6.8). In most problems, the ORs did not significantly differ between the two types of IPV.

Conclusions:

uIPV is 2.6 times more frequent than pIPV and is associated with at least as many health problems as pIPV (AU)
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