The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Exposure on the Maternal Bond and PTSD Symptoms of Children

Boeckel, Mariana Gonçalves; Wagner, Adriana; Grassi‐Oliveira, Rodrigo

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“…When women encounter violence from their partners, the care they provide for their children decreases. When violence happens, it has a persistent negative psychological effect on the victims [ 16 , 24 , 25 ], weakening the mother-child bond [ 21 , 26 ] and making women less autonomous [ 11 , 27 ]. When caregivers mind is occupied by negative thoughts that could be associated with some mental health problems, and their productivity and care to their children decrease.…”

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“…For women who had given birth, the mean parity was 4.10 (SD ± 2.52) births. The age at marriage of 36% of the women were below 18 years, 56% of the women had In the past year 77 (18) 157 (18) 234 (18) Currently working 118 (28) 223 (25) 340 [21] a Widowed, divorced, and separated more than one child under the age of 5 years, and 6% of the women were pregnant during the survey (Table 2).…”

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Effect of intimate partner violence of women on minimum acceptable diet of children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: evidence from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

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Background: The absence of proper infant and young child feeding practice results in malnutrition. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is potentially a major factor affecting child feeding practices. However, there is limited evidence about the effect of intimate partner violence (IPV) on a minimum acceptable diet. Therefore, in this study, we hypothesized that IPV will be associated with a lack of a minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) 2016. All child-mother pairs that participated in EDHS 2016 from all regions of Ethiopia were included. The analysis included mother-child pairs where 6-23 months aged children with mothers who were ever in a committed partnership and interviewed for domestic violence were involved. The data were weighted considering enumeration areas as a cluster and place of residence as a stratum. A binary logistic regression analysis was done to identify factors independently associated with a minimum acceptable diet. Result: Totally, 1307 observations were included in the final analysis. The mean age of mothers was 29 years (standard deviation ±6.54 years), the mean age of children was 14. ± 5.02 months, and 32% of women had intimate partner violence (IPV). Of the children, 8% had a minimum acceptable diet (minimum acceptable diet), 15% had a minimum dietary diversity, and 43% had a minimum meal frequency. Having intimate partner violence decreases children minimum acceptable diet by 65% (AOR: 0.35; 95% CI: 0.16, 0.77). The other factors associated with the minimum acceptable diet were caregivers attaining a secondary level of education (AOR: 4.01; 95% CI: 1.04, 15.45), currently working (AOR: 2.26; 95% CI: 1.01, 5.11), and undecided fertility desire (AOR: 4.72; 95% CI: 1.37, 16.28). Conclusion: Intimate partner violence against women had a negative association with the minimum acceptable diet children have received. Decreasing violence against women, educating, and increasing work opportunities for them would help in improving child feeding practice and reducing malnutrition and its consequences. Further studies that focus on possible community-based interventions aiming to decrease IPV are recommended.

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Section: Reproductive Characteristics Of Mothers/caregiversmentioning

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Effect of intimate partner violence of women on minimum acceptable diet of children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: evidence from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

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“…In addition, it is possible that for traumatized parents, self-reported warmth is a less reliable measure than for non-traumatized parents, thereby limiting our ability to observe what could otherwise be an important effect. Nevertheless, a number of studies do support the use of self-reported parental warmth in traumatized parents (e.g., Gonçalves Boeckel, Wagner, & Grassi-Oliveira, 2015; Lavi & Slone, 2012). Still, there is a wide recognition of the importance of social support in maintaining physical and psychological health in at-risk populations (Brewin, Andrews, & Valentine, 2000; Cobb, 1976; Ozbay, Fitterling, Charney, & Southwick, 2008), indicating the relevance for further investigation of the long-term effects of all aspects of the child–mother relationship on the ability to benefit from social buffering.…”

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Maternal buffering of fear-potentiated startle in children and adolescents with trauma exposure

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Social Neuroscience

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Parental availability influences fear expression and learning across species, but the effect of maternal buffering on fear learning in humans is unknown. Here we investigated the effect of maternal availability during fear conditioning in a group of children (ages 8–10) and adolescents (ages 11–13) from a low-income population with a range of trauma exposure. Acoustic startle response data were collected to measure fear-potentiated startle (FPS) in 104 participants. A total of 62 participants were tested with the mother available and 42 when the mother was not in the testing room. We observed that maternal availability during fear conditioning interacted with age to affect FPS discrimination between CS+ and CS–. In line with previous findings suggesting an absence of maternal buffering in adolescents, fear discrimination was affected by maternal availability only in children. Second, we observed that the effect of maternal buffering on FPS discrimination in children was not influenced by maternally reported warmth. In conclusion, we demonstrated that maternal availability improved discrimination in children, regardless of the quality of the relationship. Adolescents discriminated irrespective of maternal status, suggesting that childhood may be a sensitive period for environmental influences on key processes such as learning of danger and safety signals.

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“…The victimization of mothers and children is closely linked, with the victimization affecting the relationships between mothers and children (Lapierre et al 2018). The relationship between the mother's symptom and the children's symptoms indicates that the care actions of these mothers are impaired by the IPV that they suffered due to them being less available (Boeckel et al 2017).…”

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Effects of Domestic Violence Against Women on Their Children

2020

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress of mothers who suffered intimate partner violence (IPV) as predictors of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and internalizing and externalizing problems of their children. The study was performed with 30 women and their children (43), housed in a shelter in the south of Brazil. Mothers answered a questionnaire about sociodemographic data; the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) about the data of her children aged from 6 to 10 years; and the BDI-II, PCL-C, and BAI for the mothers. It was applied the youth self-report (YSR) for adolescent sons aged 11 to 18 years. The data were analyzed using simple linear regression. The women presented high levels of posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety, and their children had 23.3% of clinical and 25.6% borderline cases according to the total problem scale of CBCL/YSR. The association of anxiety and depression of the mothers with the symptoms indicated by the CBCL/YSR was observed. The impact of IPV on children has little visibility, and the data demonstrate the urgent need to provide interventions in the service network in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention to women victims of IPV and their children.

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The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Exposure on the Maternal Bond and PTSD Symptoms of Children

Cited by 33 publications

References 41 publications

Effect of intimate partner violence of women on minimum acceptable diet of children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: evidence from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

Effect of intimate partner violence of women on minimum acceptable diet of children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: evidence from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey

Maternal buffering of fear-potentiated startle in children and adolescents with trauma exposure

Effects of Domestic Violence Against Women on Their Children

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