Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women

Bonomi, Amy E.; Anderson, Melissa L.; Reid, Robert J.; Carrell, David; Fishman, Paul; Rivara, Frederick P.; Thompson, Robert S.

doi:10.1093/geront/47.1.34

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“…At the beginning of 2000, a growing body of research focused on the violence perpetrated by an intimate partner in older women (Mouton et al, 2004;Fritsch, Tarima, Caldwell, & Beaven, 2005;Bonomi et al, 2007). Findings of a previous study concluded that the risk of IPV is higher in younger women (aged 20 to 30) and tends to decline with age .…”

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Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women in Spain: Prevalence, Health Consequences, and Service Utilization

Montero

Martín-Baena

Escribà‐Agüir³

et al. 2013

Journal of Women & Aging

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Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women in Spain: Prevalence, Health Consequences, and Service Utilization

Montero

Martín-Baena

Escribà‐Agüir³

et al. 2013

Journal of Women & Aging

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“…[8][9][10] These findings are congruent with child maltreatment literature, where investigators have demonstrated that adult survivors of child maltreatment and witnessing violence at home are more likely to experience health problems than those who did not experience such adverse childhood experiences. 11,12 Recently, increasing attention has been directed toward understanding the effects FV has on the physical and mental health of older women, with the recognition that it represents a problem broader in scope than either IPV or EM alone. 1,[13][14][15][16][17] To our knowledge, however, few studies have examined the health status of older women who have experienced FV, as defined broadly.…”

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Lifetime Exposure to Family Violence: Implications for the Health Status of Older African American Women

Paranjape

Sprauve-Holmes²,

Gaughan

et al. 2009

Journal of Women's Health

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Background: Family violence among older women encompasses intimate partner violence (IPV) and elder maltreatment, both linked to poor health status. Little is known about the association between family violence and the health status of older innercity African American women. Methods: One hundred fifty-eight African American women, aged Ն50, were interviewed in the ambulatory clinics of a large public hospital. Lifetime family violence exposure as an adult was measured by the Family Violence against Older Women (FVOW) scale; physical and mental health status were measured by the physical and mental component summary scores of the Short Form 8 ® scale. Results: Mean participant age was 61.5 years (SD 7.1). Participants with FVOW scores in the top quartile were considered to have high lifetime family violence exposure. Participants with higher family violence exposure and those younger, unemployed, or disabled reported worse physical and mental health status. Lower income and not having Medicare were associated with worse physical and mental health status, respectively. Using stepwise linear regression techniques, only employment status and high family violence exposure were associated with worse physical (F ϭ 7.16, p ϭ 0.0011) and mental health (f ϭ 7.09, p ϭ 0.0012) status. Women with high FVOW scores reported physical and mental component summary scores that were 4.18 and 4.6 points lower, respectively, than those of women with lower FVOW scores. Conclusions: Among older, innercity, African American women, lack of employment and high levels of family violence exposure as an adult are associated with worse physical and mental health status. Clinicians caring for older African American women need to be cognizant of the role both current and prior violence exposure may play in their patients' current health status.

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“…They write that 1.52 % of their study participants reported physical abuse in their intimate relationships since age 55, and that 0.41 % reported physical abuse exposure, 1.12 % reported sexual abuse exposure, and 1.62 % were threatened with physical harm by their partner in the past year [34]. Similarly, Bonomi found lifetime prevalence of physical, verbal or sexual abuse among women over age 65 to be 26.5 %, with 2.2 % reporting abuse in the past year [23]. Further, Amstadter reported a past-year prevalence of emotional abuse among older women of about 4.6 %, as well as a past-year prevalence of physical abuse among older women of about 1.6 % [35].…”

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“…While the disproportionate risk of young women (e.g., of childbearing age), particularly those who are pregnant, is well documented [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], a growing empirical literature also characterizes the significant prevalence and public health implications of interpersonal abuse exposure, including verbal, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation, among older, post-menopausal women [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. For example, Zink et al [33] conducted a telephone survey investigating prevalence of abuse exposure among more than 3500 women over age 55.…”

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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Risk of Physical Impairment in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women Who Experience Physical and Verbal Abuse

2015

The Gerontologist

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Background: Exposure to interpersonal violence, namely verbal and physical abuse, is a highly prevalent threat to women's health and well-being. Among older, post-menopausal women, several researchers have characterized a possible bi-directional relationship of abuse exposure and diminished physical functioning. However, studies that prospectively examine the relationship between interpersonal abuse exposure and physical functioning across multiple years of observation are lacking. To address this literature gap, we prospectively evaluate the association between abuse exposure and physical functioning in a large, national cohort of post-menopausal women across 12 years of follow-up observation. Methods: Multivariable logistic regression was used to measure the adjusted association between experiencing abuse and physical function score at baseline in 154,902 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) participants. Multilevel modeling, where the trajectories of decline in physical function were modeled as a function of time-varying abuse exposure, was used to evaluate the contribution of abuse to trajectories of physical function scores over time. Result: Abuse was prevalent among WHI participants, with 11 % of our study population reporting baseline exposure. Verbal abuse was the most commonly reported abuse type (10 %), followed by combined physical and verbal abuse (1 %), followed by physical abuse in the absence of verbal abuse (0.2 %). Abuse exposure (all types) was associated with diminished physical functioning, with women exposed to combined physical and verbal abuse presenting baseline physical functioning scores consistent with non-abused women 20 years senior. Results did not reveal a differential rate of decline over time in physical functioning based on abuse exposure. Conclusions: Taken together, our findings suggest a need for increased awareness of the prevalence of abuse exposure among postmenopausal women; they also underscore the importance of clinician's vigilance in their efforts toward the prevention, early detection and effective intervention with abuse exposure, including verbal abuse exposure, in post-menopausal women. Given our findings related to abuse exposure and women's diminished physical functioning at WHI baseline, our work illuminates a need for further study, particularly the investigation of this association in younger, pre-menopausal women so that the temporal ordering if this relationship may be better understood.

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Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women

Cited by 87 publications

References 37 publications

Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women in Spain: Prevalence, Health Consequences, and Service Utilization

Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women in Spain: Prevalence, Health Consequences, and Service Utilization

Lifetime Exposure to Family Violence: Implications for the Health Status of Older African American Women

Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Risk of Physical Impairment in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women Who Experience Physical and Verbal Abuse

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