“…Thus, in the case of PTSD symptomatology, Cole et al [26], Krause et al [28], Kuijpers et al [30], Sonis and Langer [32], and Person [18] dichotomized the variable according to whether or not women had any of the PTSD symptoms according to the DSM IV. For Stein et al [14] and Coolidge and Anderson [24], in which a continuous measure of symptomatology was provided, the formula proposed in Botella and Sánchez [12] was used to transform effect size measures for continuous variables into ORs. In the case of severity of violence, the three studies that analyzed this variable [6,28,32] provided ORs in their studies for reporting the severity of violence by dichotomizing the score according to the recommendations of the measurement scales used in each case.…”