How common is domestic violence against women? The definition of partner abuse in prevalence studies

Hegarty, Kelsey; Roberts, Gwenneth L.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.1998.tb01144.x

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“…32 Hegarty and Roberts suggest that distinctions should also be made between sporadic occasions of violence and systematic violence perpetrated by one partner against another. 33 The current study was unable to make such distinctions between behaviours and has defined domestic violence as ever having lived in a violent relationship with a partner or spouse. Nevertheless, the results are compelling and indicate that a history of domestic violence is associated with increased use of health services among mid-aged Australian women.…”

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History of domestic violence and health service use among mid‐aged Australian women

Loxton¹,

Schofield²,

Hussain³

2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objectives: To examine associations between history of domestic violence and health service use among mid-aged Australian women, adjusting for physical and psychological health status and demographic factors. Methods: Population-based cross-sectional postal survey (1996) 2 Furthermore, 51% of women attending an outpatient clinic 3 reported having experienced domestic violence. In studies done using data from hospital emergency departments in the US, lifetime prevalence of domestic violence has varied from 33% to 54%. 4,5 A study conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) revealed a lifetime prevalence of 41% for women attending their general practitioner, 6 while in an Irish study 39% of women attending their general practitioner had ever experienced physical violence from a partner. 7Some Australian studies show a similar difference in prevalence between nationally representative and clinical populations. For instance, a nationally representative population-based study found that 2.6% of women currently living in intimate relationships had experienced domestic violence, 8 while 22% of women attending their general practitioner had experienced domestic violence in the past 12 months. 9 However, some Australian clinic-based studies have revealed lifetime prevalence rates for domestic violence that were lower than those found in overseas studies, similar to the 23% lifetime prevalence of domestic violence found among women who took part in a national random sample 8 and lower than the lifetime prevalence of 28.5% found among a random sample of mid-aged women.

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confidence: 86%

History of domestic violence and health service use among mid‐aged Australian women

Loxton¹,

Schofield²,

Hussain³

2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…39 40 Reporting frequency may not increase significantly after experienced violence. There was no association between violence and depression among men, possibly because certain feminised illnesses such as depression are reported less among men generally 41 42 and experienced [45][46][47][48] may be attributable to difference in levels of violence between settings, as well as differences in study design, 19 including the definitions of abuse used, interviewer training, and cultural differences in respondent's willingness to disclose sensitive information. 2 16 Moreover, abused women frequently invalidate and normalise their experiences of violence.…”

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confidence: 99%

Physical violence, self rated health, and morbidity: is gender significant for victimisation?

Helweg‐Larsen¹,

Laursen²,

Bjerregaard³

2004

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Study objective: To analyse gender differences in associations between physical violence and self rated health and self reported morbidity among a random sample of adults in Denmark. Design and setting: Two questions on self rated health and self reported morbidity respectively, were obtained from a cross sectional national health interview survey conducted among 12 028 adults (16 years +) in Denmark in 2000. A question on six different forms of physical violence was obtained from a supplementary self administered questionnaire given to the same sample. The reporting period for experienced physical violence was the past 12 months and for morbidity symptoms, the past 14 days. Main results: Men aged 16-24 years were significantly more likely to have experienced violence than women (OR = 3.2, 95% CI = 2.3 to 4.2). Female victims of physical violence were significantly more likely to rate their health as poor (OR = 2.02, 95% CI = 1.41 to 2.89) and to report anxiety (OR = 2.14, 95% CI = 1.35 to 3.37), depression (OR = 2.36, 95% CI = 1.55 to 3.60), and stomach ache (OR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.01 to 2.47) than female non-victims. Male victims of physical violence were only significantly more likely to report stomach ache (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.03 to 2.89) than male non-victims. Conclusions: Associations between physical violence and poor self rated health and self reported morbidity were found to be significant for women, but not for men. It is probable that gender differences in experiences of violence, as well as gender differences in health related self perception, contribute to a gender specific process of victimisation. Improved knowledge about the relation between gender specific violence and victimisation as a gender specific consequence is essential for targeting violence prevention.

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“…Intimate partner abuse, often called domestic violence, is a complex multi-dimensional set of coercive behaviours, but is often measured by acts of physical and sexual violence. 18 However, women who are physically abused by intimate partners are also abused in other ways, for instance psychologically or economically. Three questions in the survey addressed violence: • In the last 12 months, have you been pushed, grabbed, shoved, kicked or hit?…”

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“…The first two questions are consistent with those asked by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 16 and derived from a valid and reliable but controversial measure, the Conflict Tactics Scale. 18,19 The last question enabled distinction between women who report partner violence and others. These three questions were combined to produce a composite variable, with five mutually exclusive categories determined to be both logical and consistent after preliminary cross-tabulations.…”

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Violence against young Australian women and association with reproductive events: a cross‐sectional analysis of a national population sample

Taft

Watson

Lee

2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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How common is domestic violence against women? The definition of partner abuse in prevalence studies

Cited by 57 publications

References 18 publications

History of domestic violence and health service use among mid‐aged Australian women

History of domestic violence and health service use among mid‐aged Australian women

Physical violence, self rated health, and morbidity: is gender significant for victimisation?

Violence against young Australian women and association with reproductive events: a cross‐sectional analysis of a national population sample

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