Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey

Tjaden, Patricia; Thoennes, Nancy

doi:10.1037/e491852006-001

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“…This is somewhat lower than rates from earlier studies: 38% (15) and 52% (2). Differences in demographic composition may account for the differing assault rates between the studies.…”

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“…According to estimates from one study of 16,005 community-dwelling adults, approximately one-half of U.S. women and nearly two-thirds of men were physically assaulted during childhood, and 17.6% of the women reported that they had been the victim of a completed or attempted rape at some time in their life (2). A substantial proportion of the U.S. population has dealt with violence in childhood, adulthood, or both (2). …”

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Assault and Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study of Urban Adult Primary Care Patients

Glover¹,

Olfson²,

Gameroff³

et al. 2010

Psychiatric Services

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Objective This study estimated the strength of associations between self-reported assault and psychiatric disorders among low-income, urban primary care patients who were predominantly female. Methods A sample of adult patients who consecutively presented at an urban primary care practice completed the Life Events Checklist (N=1,157). They were also screened for current major depression, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and substance use disorders with the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire; for bipolar disorder with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire; and for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the PTSD Checklist–Civilian Version. A total of 977 of the respondents reported whether they had ever experienced an assault. Logistic regression was used to model associations between self-reported assault and screen status, controlling for relevant sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Results Twenty-five percent of study participants endorsed a history of physical or sexual assault. Compared with patients without a history of assault, patients with a history of assault had significantly greater odds of screening positive for PTSD (odds ratio [OR]=1.97, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.19–3.25), alcohol use disorder (OR=2.17, CI=1.07–4.41), and drug use disorder (OR=3.38, CI=1.14–9.98). Conclusion A history of assault was related to risk of screening positive for PTSD and a substance use disorder. These findings support assessment of trauma history among low-income primary care patients.

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“…This is somewhat lower than rates from earlier studies: 38% (15) and 52% (2). Differences in demographic composition may account for the differing assault rates between the studies.…”

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Assault and Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study of Urban Adult Primary Care Patients

Glover¹,

Olfson²,

Gameroff³

et al. 2010

Psychiatric Services

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“…These data reveal an annual incidence of two percent, a lifetime incidence of 25 percent and suggest that intimate partners are responsible for three fourths of all violence against women over the age of 18 (Tjaden and Thoennes, 1998). A number of studies have found that violence often initiates or escalates during pregnancy (Stewart and Cecutti, 1993; Amaro, Fried, Cabral and Zuckerman, 1990).…”

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“…Every year two percent of women in the US are the victims of domestic violence, with poor and minority women disproportionately affected (Tjaden and Thonnes, 1998). Existing empirical research has generally found that women who suffer domestic violence experience a host of negative outcomes including, but not limited to, reductions in earnings and poor health.…”

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Poverty, Violence, and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence During Pregnancy on Newborn Health

Aizer¹

2011

Journal of Human Resources

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Two percent of women in the US suffer from intimate partner violence annually, with poor and minority women disproportionately affected. I provide evidence of an important negative externality associated with domestic violence by estimating a negative and causal relationship between violence during pregnancy and newborn health, exploiting variation in the enforcement of laws against domestic violence for identification. I find that hospitalization for an assault while pregnant reduces birth weight by 163 grams. This sheds new light on the infant health production process as well as observed income gradients in health given that poor mothers are disproportionately affected by violence.

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“…This sampling strategy created a sample that is in many ways comparable to that used in college studies of sexual assault perpetration, although participants were somewhat older and employed. Most sexual assaults occur among individuals who know each other, often in a dating relationship; thus the sampling strategy allowed the most common types of sexual assault to be examined [Koss et al, 1987;Tjaden and Thoennes, 1998]. The parameters of marital sexual assault are likely to be very different from other types of sexual assault due to the long-term nature of the relationship [Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000]; thus it is important to also conduct sexual assault research among married and cohabitating couples.…”

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Cross-sectional predictors of sexual assault perpetration in a community sample of single African American and Caucasian men

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Computer-assisted self-interviews were completed with a random sample of 163 unmarried Caucasian and African American men in a large metropolitan area. Almost a quarter (24.5%) of these men acknowledged committing an act since the age of 14 that met standard legal definitions of attempted or completed rape; an additional 39% had committed another type of sexual assault involving forced sexual contact or verbal coercion. An expanded version of the Malamuth et al.[1991] confluence model was examined using path analysis. The number of sexual assaults perpetrated by participants was associated with the direct or indirect effects of childhood sexual abuse, adolescent delinquency, alcohol problems, sexual dominance, positive attitudes about casual sexual relationships, and pressure from peers to engage in sexual relationships. Additionally, empathy buffered the relationship between sexual dominance and perpetration. The pattern of results was highly similar for African American and Caucasian men. The implications of these findings for sexual assault measurement are discussed and suggestions are made for alternative treatment programs.

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Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey

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Assault and Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study of Urban Adult Primary Care Patients

Assault and Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study of Urban Adult Primary Care Patients

Poverty, Violence, and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence During Pregnancy on Newborn Health

Cross-sectional predictors of sexual assault perpetration in a community sample of single African American and Caucasian men

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