The Chicago Women's Health Risk Study

Block, Carolyn Rebecca; Engel, Barbara; Naureckas, Sara; Riordan, Kim A.

doi:10.1177/10778019922183309

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“…Social support questions were derived from the Social Support Scale developed from focus group work done with primarily low income minority women; it was used as part of the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, 1995-1998 [23,24]. Social Support was evaluated as a sum of whether the respondent had someone to talk to, borrow money from, and stay with in an emergency.…”

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Child Injury Risks are Close to Home: Parent Psychosocial Factors Associated with Child Safety

Rhodes

Iwashyna

2007

Matern Child Health J

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Objective: In several populations, maternal depression has been associated with reduced child safety. In an urban pediatric Emergency Department, we examined the relationship between parental depression, social support, and domestic conflict and child safety behaviors.Methods: We studied consecutive patients in an Emergency Department. Trained interviewers used a structured instrument to assess patient, primary caregiver, and household demographics, socio-economic status, psychosocial factors, child safety behaviors (whether a gun was in the home, poisons were locked, a functioning smoke detector was present, and use of carseats or seatbelts), and whether the home was smokefree. 1,116 patients provided adequate data.Results: Depression was associated with a modest and not statistically significant reduction in child safety behaviors in this population. Lack of social support and the presence of domestic conflict were robustly, independently, and statistically significantly associated with less safe homes. Domestic conflict was associated with more smoking in the home.Conclusion: In our population, child safety was associated less with depression and more with parental lack of social support and domestic conflict. These can be assessed in a Emergency Department and may be amenable to intervention. Abstract Objective: In several populations, maternal depression has been associated with reduced child safety. In an urban pediatric Emergency Department, we examined the relationship between parental depression, social support, and domestic conflict and child safety behaviors.Methods: We studied consecutive patients in an Emergency Department. Trained interviewers used a structured instrument to assess patient, primary caregiver, and household demographics, socio-economic status, psychosocial factors, child safety behaviors (whether a gun was in the home, poisons were locked, a functioning smoke detector was present, and use of carseats or seatbelts), and whether the home was smoke-free. 1,116 patients provided adequate data.Results: Depression was associated with a modest and not statistically significant reduction in child safety behaviors in this population. Lack of social support and the presence of domestic conflict were robustly, independently, and statistically significantly associated with less safe homes. Domestic conflict was associated with more smoking in the home.Conclusion: In our population, child safety was associated less with depression and more with parental lack of social support and domestic conflict. These can be assessed in a Emergency Department and may be amenable to intervention.

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Child Injury Risks are Close to Home: Parent Psychosocial Factors Associated with Child Safety

Rhodes

Iwashyna

2007

Matern Child Health J

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“…The intimate partner committing a homicide is not necessarily the person indicated by the victim's "marital status" (see Bachman & Saltzman, 1995;Rennison, 2001;Schwartz, 1988). For example, a Chicago study of 699 women currently experiencing intimate partner violence (Block, 2000a) found that 11% of abused women who reported their marital status as "married" were being abused by someone other than a current husband, 67% of women who said they were "separated" were being abused by someone other than a current or former husband, and 81% of women who said they were "divorced" were being abused by someone other than a former husband. This other abuser might be, for example, another boyfriend, a former intimate partner, or a current same-sex partner-19% of the women who were being abused by a same-sex intimate partner reported that they were married, separated, or divorced.…”

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“…In Chicago, for example, Block and Christakos (1995) analyzed risk patterns associated with IPH using the Chicago Homicide Dataset, which consists of archived data from 1965 to 1995, and found a number of correlates with age discrepancy. More recently, the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (Block, 2000a) combined data on lethal and nonlethal intimate partner violence to examine risk factors for death, including age discrepancy.…”

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Couple Age Discrepancy and Risk of Intimate Partner Homicide

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Shackelford²,

Block³

2004

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Although national level studies in the United States and Canada find that extreme partner age discrepancy is a risk factor for intimate partner homicide in opposite-sex couples, these studies carry two caveats: They are limited to cohabiting marital or common-law couples and they are not detailed enough to explore alternative explanations for the age discrepancy-homicide risk association. Using the Chicago Homicide Dataset, which includes all homicides that occurred in Chicago from 1965 to 1996, we analyze the 2,577 homicides in which the victim was killed by a current or former legal spouse, commonlaw spouse, or heterosexual boyfriend or girlfriend, and in which the woman was at least 18 years of age. Within each of 14 categories of couple age discrepancy, we estimate the population of intimate heterosexual couples and calculate the population-based risk of homicide. The results replicate national level findings showing that the risk of intimate partner homicide is considerably elevated for couples with a large discrepancy between their ages-where the man is at least 16 years older than the woman or the woman is at least 10 years older than the man. This risk pattern occurs regardless of whether the man or the woman was the homicide offender. We then investigate whether the link between partner age discrepancy and homicide risk is explained by the offender's arrest record. Results show that the higher risk of intimate partner homicide for age discrepant couples is robust, and does not depend on the previous arrest record of the offender. Discussion addresses other possible explanations for the increased risk of partner homicide for age discrepant couples, and the practical implications of these findings.

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“…The two samples of data analyzed in the current research were obtained from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, 1995-1998(Block 2000a, which was designed to include "hidden" women-that is, women who were not part of agency or shelter populations. The first sample consists of data secured from interviews of unabused women and abused women who were questioned at specific sites in Chicago chosen because they are in areas where the population-wide levels of intimate partner homicide are high (Block 2000b).…”

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“…Although each of the comparisons made in the current study (e.g., unabused versus abused, less severely abused versus more severely abused) have been documented previously, no study that we are aware of has tested these hypotheses simultaneously with samples drawn from the same population, which is important for considering the size of the stepchild effect across groups. The current research tests the hypothesized relationship between presence of children sired by a previous partner and violence severity using two samples of data obtained from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (Block 2000a). The first sample contains data pertaining to women who were victims of nonlethal intimate partner violence (abused women) and women who were not (unabused women).…”

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Risk of Death or Life-Threatening Injury for Women with Children Not Sired by the Abuser

Miner

Shackelford

Block³

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Hum Nat

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Women who are abused by their male intimate partners incur many costs, ranging in severity from fleeting physical pain to death. Previous research has linked the presence of children sired by a woman's previous partner to increased risk of woman abuse and to increased risk of femicide. The current research extends this work by securing data from samples of 111 unabused women, 111 less severely abused women, 128 more severely abused women, and 26 victims of intimate partner femicide from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study to document an ordinal trend in the risk of experiencing more severe forms of violence for women who have children in the household sired by a previous partner. The discussion addresses two potential explanations for this trend and highlights directions for future research. Keywords Domestic violence . Intimate partner abuse . Intimate partner homicide . StepchildrenIntimate partner abuse is widespread in both industrialized and unindustrialized settings. A World Health Organization multi-country study found that the lifetime prevalence of physical partner violence among ever-partnered women ranges from 13% to 61% (Garcia-Moreno et al. 2006). Female victims of their male intimate partner's abuse incur many costs, ranging from minor physical wounds to death (for Hum Nat (2012) 23:89-97

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The Chicago Women's Health Risk Study

Cited by 33 publications

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Child Injury Risks are Close to Home: Parent Psychosocial Factors Associated with Child Safety

Child Injury Risks are Close to Home: Parent Psychosocial Factors Associated with Child Safety

Couple Age Discrepancy and Risk of Intimate Partner Homicide

Risk of Death or Life-Threatening Injury for Women with Children Not Sired by the Abuser

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