Cavanagh, Alice Kimber, Melissa MacMillan, Harriet L Ritz, Stacey A Vanstone, Meredith
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Violence against women
Resources addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) play a role in shaping how physicians conceptualize and perform their roles in caring for affected patients. This study combines environmental scanning with critical discourse analysis (CDA) to parse how roles of physicians were represented in 28 education materials and policy documents about IPV...
Yang, Chunhui Liu, Wanlan Wang, Yihuan Xu, Shuang Xu, Yuxi Yang, Lujia Zhou, Qi Li, Junyi
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Violence against women
The current study examined how the general tolerance of women's intimate partner violence and mental violence perpetration are affected by women's ambivalent sexism and relationship causality orientation. One hundred and forty-nine of 221 Chinese female participants recruited on an online platform were included in the final data analysis. The resul...
Monterrosa, Allison E Hattery, Angela J
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Violence against women
We conceptualize a new and distinct form of intimate partner violence: coercive violence. Coercive violence is a form of intimate partner violence in which the abuser intentionally engages in acts that expose his partner to state surveillance and violence at the behest of institutions or the state, including the child welfare system and the crimina...
Shah, Nilpa D Nguyen, Grace Wagman, Jennifer A Glik, Deborah C
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Violence against women
Domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs), although a widely used legal intervention in preventing future risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a lack of documentation on the facilitators and barriers of utilization of DVROs among IPV survivors in Los Angeles County (LAC). We conducted 19 key informant interviews with various profess...
Deal, Emily Hawkins, Maren Del Carmen Graf, Maria Dressel, Anne Ruiz, Ashley Pittman, Belinda Schmitt, Marin Krueger, Emma Lopez, Alexa A Mkandawire-Valhmu, Lucy
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Violence against women
Women experiencing homelessness who are also survivors of violence require uniquely tailored programs to accommodate complex needs. To understand how violence shaped the lives of formerly homeless African American women, an instrumental case study design and community-based participatory research approach was utilized in this qualitative study. Foc...
Marks, Michael J Zaikman, Yuliana
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Violence against women
The current research examined the interactions between various factors that contribute to perceptions of a woman's sexual assault. Participants read a vignette about an assault in which we varied eight factors. We assessed the impact of these factors and their interactions on participants' perceptions of the assault. Participants' perceptions were ...
Pir, Setayesh Hashemi, Ladan Gulliver, Pauline McIntosh, Tracey Fanslow, Janet
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Violence against women
While there is evidence that social support can mitigate mental illness symptoms associated with intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a need to explore if social support can promote positive mental health. In this New Zealand (NZ) population-based study of women who had experienced physical and/or sexual violence (n = 453), structural equation...
Zonp, Zeynep Saint Arnault, Denise
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Violence against women
This study investigated the reliability and predictive validity of the Sense of Coherence (SOC) scale for 299 American survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). First, confirmatory factor analysis examined the construct validity of the SOC-13. Then, relationships between SOC and clinical scales were examined. Confirmatory factor analysis supported ...
Dyer, Lauren Vilda, Dovile Harville, Emily Theall, Katherine Wallace, Maeve
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Violence against women
Pregnancy-associated homicide remains an understudied yet critical issue. Using restricted use mortality files provided by the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System, annual state-level pregnancy-associated homicide ratios were estimated as the count of deaths divided by the number of live births. The ...
Irvine-Collins, Emma Moore, Emma Cao, Kailun Curley, Melissa Ablaza, Christine Heard, Emma
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Violence against women
This study explores a social marketing campaign aimed to promote compassionate responses to disclosures of sexual violence from peers and raise awareness of university-based formal support services. Findings from a survey (n = 189) and follow-up focus groups (n = 11) conducted with university students in Australia indicated that exposure to the cam...
