TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Police reports on domestic incidents involving intimate partners: injuries and medical help-seeking
JO  - Women and health
A1  - Duncan, M. M.
A1  - Stayton, Catherine D.
A1  - Hall, Charles B.
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
VL  - 30
IS  - 1
N2  - This study aims to expand knowledge of partner abuse injury and help-seeking through a new source of data. We reviewed police reports during corresponding periods in 1996 and 1997 (n = 476). Complainants were injured in 17.4% of all incidents; 90% of those injured were women. Hispanics were more likely to be injured than non-Hispanics (OR = 2.06; 95% CI = 1.0, 4.25). The likelihood of injury decreased with each year of increasing age (OR = 0.95; CI = 0.91, 0.99). Only 20.5% of those injured consented to medical care. Police reports provide information on partner abuse injury that supplements hospital surveillance and household surveys.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0242
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -