Mental health solutions for domestic violence victims amid COVID-19: a review of the literature

Su, Zhaohui; McDonnell, Dean; Roth, Stéphanie; Li, Quanlei; Šegalo, Sabina; Shi, Feng; Wagers, Shelly M.

doi:10.1186/s12992-021-00710-7

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“…As COVID-19 evolves, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact scope and consequences of domestic violence and abuse against women. What is clear is that interventions are needed to address these issues in a timely fashion ( Su, McDonnell, Roth, et al, 2021 ).…”

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Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19

Cheshmehzangi

McDonnell

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Gender inequalities could lead to grave human and economic consequences, especially amid global health crises of the coronavirus 2019′s (COVID-19) scale. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated gender inequalities women face and introduced new challenges that are unprecedented to society at large. Adverse effects of COVID-19, compounded by unintended consequences caused by public health policies such as lockdowns (e.g., delayed or canceled health services), have forced women to face issues ranging from COVID-19 infections and deaths, prolonged unemployment, to unparalleled scale and severity of domestic violence. However, though women face a canopy of debilitating challenges, there is a shortage of research that examines health solutions that can mitigate, if not offset, challenges women experience amid COVID-19. In this paper, we aim to shed light on why timely solutions are needed to mitigate gender inequalities and health disparities women face amid COVID-19 promptly. Furthermore, we underscore the imperative for cost-effective interventions that could shed light on the current health crisis and future pandemics.

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Section: Covid-19 Risk Factors For Womenmentioning

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Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19

Cheshmehzangi

McDonnell

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“…The shortfall of this action is the neglect of most other essential health care services. Indeed, a significant number of services and protective measures that were established to support victims of domestic violence, such as crisis lines; centres and shelters; and legal aid groups were put on hold or cancelled altogether once lockdown measures were instituted, worsening an already dire situation for victims with limited resources (Su et al, 2021). DISCUSSION Domestic violence is a highly complex issue comprising various inter-webbing, interdependent factors.…”

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COVID-19 and intimate partner violence: Women "trapped" in the "shadow pandemic"

Mustapha¹

2021

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The United Nations (UN) defines domestic violence as behavioural patterns in a relationship to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Domestic violence compromises the physical, emotional, mental, and economic well-being of victims. In worst-case scenarios, domestic violence can result in the death of its victims. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by increased reports of domestic violence, primarily against women. The World Bank affirmed that before the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic violence was a global pandemic affecting 1 in 3 women in their lifetime –a staggering statistic. In contrast to the conspicuous nature of most pandemics, the domestic violence pandemic is silent and difficult to detect. Consequently, victims find themselves trapped in a shadow pandemic. The socio-ecological model was proposed to address this problem to achieve a durable and practical resolution. A narrative review method was employed to gather the literature. Articles published from 1995 to 2021 were searched using Google Scholar, PubMed, and Elsevier. Original research papers and articles highlighting the factors influencing the rise of domestic violence during COVID-19 were selected. Supplemental information was retrieved from the websites of international health agencies. After a complete review, 36 sources that met the inclusion criteria were selected. The research identified several significant drivers of domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: economic hardship in the setting of social unrest; low socioeconomic status; low educational attainment; mental illness; family dysfunction; and substance abuse. Other added risk factors included the shutdown of usual safe havens to curtail virus spread and the societal tolerance of violence against women.

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“…Furthermore, evidence indicates that COVID-19 physical distancing measures could cause mental disorders including distress, anxiety, depression, and suicidal behaviors [ 27 , 28 , 29 ]. This might be especially true among vulnerable populations—older adults, domestic violence victims, racial/sexual minorities, and other underserved communities were among those who have been shouldering the most pronounced adverse impacts across the pandemic [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ].…”

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Rigorous Policy-Making Amid COVID-19 and Beyond: Literature Review and Critical Insights

2021

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Policies shape society. Public health policies are of particular importance, as they often dictate matters in life and death. Accumulating evidence indicates that good-intentioned COVID-19 policies, such as shelter-in-place measures, can often result in unintended consequences among vulnerable populations such as nursing home residents and domestic violence victims. Thus, to shed light on the issue, this study aimed to identify policy-making processes that have the potential of developing policies that could induce optimal desirable outcomes with limited to no unintended consequences amid the pandemic and beyond. Methods: A literature review was conducted in PubMed, PsycINFO, and Scopus to answer the research question. To better structure the review and the subsequent analysis, theoretical frameworks such as the social ecological model were adopted to guide the process. Results: The findings suggested that: (1) people-centered; (2) artificial intelligence (AI)-powered; (3) data-driven, and (4) supervision-enhanced policy-making processes could help society develop policies that have the potential to yield desirable outcomes with limited unintended consequences. To leverage these strategies’ interconnectedness, the people-centered, AI-powered, data-driven, and supervision-enhanced (PADS) model of policy making was subsequently developed. Conclusions: The PADS model can develop policies that have the potential to induce optimal outcomes and limit or eliminate unintended consequences amid COVID-19 and beyond. Rather than serving as a definitive answer to problematic COVID-19 policy-making practices, the PADS model could be best understood as one of many promising frameworks that could bring the pandemic policy-making process more in line with the interests of societies at large; in other words, more cost-effectively, and consistently anti-COVID and pro-human.

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Mental health solutions for domestic violence victims amid COVID-19: a review of the literature

Cited by 39 publications

References 87 publications

Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19

Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19

COVID-19 and intimate partner violence: Women "trapped" in the "shadow pandemic"

Rigorous Policy-Making Amid COVID-19 and Beyond: Literature Review and Critical Insights

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