TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Intimate partner violence prevalence, types, and chronicity in adult women
JO  - American journal of preventive medicine
A1  - Thompson, R. S.
A1  - Bonomi, Amy E.
A1  - Anderson, Michael
A1  - Reid, Robert J.
A1  - Dimer, Jane A.
A1  - Carrell, David
A1  - Rivara, Frederick P.
SP  - 447
EP  - 457
VL  - 30
IS  - 6
N2  - BACKGROUND: Most intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence studies do not examine the relationships between IPV types and the chronicity and severity of abuse. OBJECTIVES: Delineate prevalence, chronicity, and severity of IPV among adult women. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study conducted by telephone survey. Data were collected in 2003 to 2005 and analyzed contemporaneously. PARTICIPANTS: English-speaking women (n =3568) aged 18 to 64 years enrolled in a U.S. health maintenance organization for 3 or more years. Response rate was 56.4%. MAIN EXPOSURE: Physical, psychological, and sexual IPV were assessed using five questions from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey and ten items from the Women's Experience with Battering (WEB) scale. RESULTS: Most (3429) of the respondents had at least one intimate partnership as an adult. Of these, 14.7% reported IPV of any type in the past 5 years, and 45.1% of abused women experienced more than one type. Prevalence was 7.9% in the past year, while during a woman's adult lifetime, it was 44.0%. Depending on IPV type, 10.7% to 21.0% were abused by more than one partner; duration was <1 year to 5 median years; while in 5% to 13% of the instances, IPV persisted for >20 years. IPV rates were higher for younger women, women with lower income and less education, single mothers, and those who had been abused as a child. CONCLUSIONS: The high prevalence of IPV across women's lifetimes in the previous 5 years and the previous year are documented. The present investigation provides new information of IPV chronicity, severity, and the overlap of IPV types over a woman's adult life span.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0749-3797
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2006.01.016
ID  - ref1
ER  -