@article{ref1,
title="Interpersonal conflict and physical abuse in relation to pregnancy and infant birth weight",
journal="Journal of women's health and gender-based medicine",
year="1999",
author="Grimstad, H. and Schei, Berit and Backe, B. and Jacobsen, G.",
volume="8",
number="6",
pages="847-853",
abstract="Women's experiences of different kinds of abusive behavior by their partners were studied in relation to birth weight of the women's infants and other pregnancy outcome measures. Eighty-four women who delivered a low-birth-weight (< 2500 g) infant (cases) and 90 women who delivered an infant with higher birth weight (controls) were interviewed in a case-control study. Information about the partners' behavior during conflicts were obtained by use of a modified Conflict Tactics Scale. Different interpersonal conflict behaviors were categorized as negative verbal interaction or moderate or severe physical abuse. Women who had experienced moderate or severe violence in a relationship also had experienced negative verbal interaction from their partner. Low birth weight was not associated with experiences of any interpersonal conflict behavior in the total sample (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.42-1.37). Among women with a low birth weight infant, mean birth weight was 261 g lower among those who reported any interpersonal conflict behavior during pregnancy. Birth of a low-birth-weight infant was not associated with abuse in a wide sense. Also, such abuse was unassociated with a variety of other complications during pregnancy, lifestyle characteristics, or pregnancy outcome measures.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1524-6094",
doi="10.1089/152460999319165",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/152460999319165"
}