Ali, Parveen Ayyaz, Rida McGarry, Julie Younas, Ahtisham Watson, Roger East, Leah
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International nursing review
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is a major health problem that affects individuals across the world. Nurses, midwives and healthcare providers need to be confident and competent in identifying and responding to DVA. To measure current levels of knowledge, opinions and preparedness towards DVA and how it is managed by registered nurses and midwive...
Wu, Yu Wang, Yaping Long, Hai Liu, Lirong Dai, Lili Cao, Wanxian Liu, Jue Liu, Min
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The Journal of infectious diseases
To assess the prevalence and exacerbating factors of intimate partner violence in people with human immunodeficiency virus (PWH) in China, we conducted a cross-sectional study, involving 2792 PWH in 4 provinces in China from 1 September 2020 to 1 June 2021. The categories of intimate partner violence (IPV) included physical violence, sexual violenc...
Williams, Christopher Gray, Keith L. Skrip, Laura A. Whitfield, Darren L.
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Frontiers in Public Health
Aboagye, Richard Gyan Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Peprah, Prince Asare, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Addo, Isaac Yeboah Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
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International health
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has emerged as a serious human rights issue as well as a public health concern globally. We examined the association between exposure to interparental violence and experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. We included 96 782 w...
Zhang, Cheyu Kanselaar, Samantha Zaidi, Jaffer Gupta, Jhumka
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International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
To examine whether disabled women are more likely to report accepting attitudes towards intimate partner violence (IPV) than non-disabled women, and whether male partners of disabled women are more likely to accept IPV than male partners of non-disabled women. Secondary analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional data from the Demographic...
Jewkes, Rachel Milovanovic, Minja Otwombe, Kennedy Hlongwane, Khuthadzo Hill, Naomi Mbowane, Venice Gray, Glenda Coetzee, Jenny
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Culture, health & sexuality
To deepen our understanding of sex work stigma, and to its drivers and their interrelation, we conducted an analysis using structural equation modelling of the South African National Sex Worker Survey. We enrolled 3005 women in sex work using multi-stage sampling across all South Africa's provinces. Experience of external/enacted and internalised s...
Schellong, Julia Daniels, Judith Garthus-Niegel, Susan
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Shaikh, Masood Ali
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Frontiers in Public Health
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a globally pervasive public health and medical problem in addition to being a serious violation of women’s rights. The two-fold objectives of this study were to compute the lifetime prevalence and correlates of IPV perpetrated by current/former husbands/partners of ever-married women aged 15–49 years us...
Cinquegrana, Vincenza Marini, Maddalena Galdi, Silvia
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Frontiers in Psychology
Research provided evidence that IPV myths affect women’s acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships, increasing revictimization. However, no study to date has investigated how endorsement of IPV myths leads victims of psychological IPV to accept psychological aggression. In the present study (N = 207 young Italian women involv...
Moss, Katrina M Loxton, Deborah Mishra, Gita D
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Journal of interpersonal violence
The association between exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and child behavior problems is well established. However, questions remain about whether the timing during the child's early life course matters. We used a structured life course approach to investigate associations between the timing of IPV and children's internalizing and externa...
