Health Indicators, Social Support, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Women Utilizing Services at a Community Organization

The Relationship between Body Esteem, Exercise Motivations, Depression, and Social Support Among Female Free Clinic Patients

“…The levels of social support among the participants (mean ¼ 3.10, SD ¼ 1.20) are slightly better than women utilizing community services for intimate partner violence in the same catchment area of this study (mean ¼ 3.0, SD ¼ 1.1; Kamimura, Parekh, & Olson, 2013b). The average depression severity among the participants (mean ¼ 8.87, SD ¼ 6.91) was determined to represent mild depression (Kroenke et al, 2001) and was much lower than that of women utilizing community services for intimate partner violence in the same catchment area of this study (mean ¼ 14.8, SD ¼ 6.7; Kamimura et al, 2013b). Table 3 presents the results of regression analysis to examine predictors of weight-related body esteem and exercise motivation among female participants.…”

Conditions and Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence among Taiwanese Women

“…Divorced women took longer to seek medical help than married women did. A study investigating IPV survivors found that social support was the most important factor related to better health [43]. Further, IPV survivors who were divorced took longer to seek medical help, perhaps because of the lack of social networks or social support systems, which might have delayed medical help seeking.…”

Depression and Social Support Among Women Living with the Substance Abuse, Violence, and HIV/AIDS Syndemic: A Qualitative Exploration

“…Social support, including emotional, informational or instrumental/financial resources provided through relationships with others, has the potential to be one such factor (Cohen, Gottlieb, & Underwood, 2000) and has been shown to be an important influence on depression and experiences of abuse (Beeble, Bybee, Sullivan, & Adams, 2009; Goodman, Dutton, Vankos, & Weinfurt, 2005; Kamimura, Parekh, & Olson, 2013; Wenzel, Tucker, Elliott, Marshall, & Williamson, 2004). Social support might be particularly important for low-income African American women because they are more likely to rely on informal support systems and less likely to access traditional mental health services as compared to white women (Bradley et al, 2005; Kanuha, 1994).…”