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Citation

Garcia L, Hurwitz EL, Kraus JF. J. Interpers. Violence 2005; 20(5): 569-590.

Affiliation

University of California, Davis and Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, USA. lgarcia@ucdavis.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260504271582

PMID

15788555

Abstract

This study sought to understand the relationship between acculturation and reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) among Latinas. A cross-sectional interviewer-administered survey was conducted at public health care clinics throughout Los Angeles County. Logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of acculturation on reporting IPV. An increasing trend of reporting IPV was observed among Latinas who were more acculturated (chi-square = 41.02, p = .0006). Highly acculturated Latinas were more likely to report IPV compared with least acculturated Latinas (prevalence odds ration = 2.18, 95% confidence level = 0.98, 4.89) and moderately acculturated Latinas were more likely to report IPV compared with least acculturated Latinas (prevalence odds ration = 1.29, 95% confidence level = 0.69, 2.43). Culturally competent IPV prevention programs may be the key to significantly reducing the number of women exposed to this serious public health problem.

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