TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Premarital mental disorders and physical violence in marriage: Cross-national study of married couples
JO  - British journal of psychiatry
A1  - Miller, Elizabeth
A1  - Breslau, Joshua A.
A1  - Petukhova, Maria
A1  - Fayyad, John
A1  - Green, Jennifer Greif
A1  - Kola, Lola
A1  - Seedat, Soraya
A1  - Stein, Dan J.
A1  - Tsang, Adley
A1  - Viana, Maria Carmen
A1  - Andrade, Laura Helena
A1  - Demyttenaere, Koen
A1  - de Girolamo, Giovanni
A1  - Haro, Josep Maria
A1  - Hu, Chiyi
A1  - Karam, Elie G.
A1  - Kovess-Masféty, Viviane
A1  - Tomov, Toma
A1  - Kessler, Ronald C.
SP  - 330
EP  - 337
VL  - 199
IS  - 4
N2  - BACKGROUND: Mental disorders may increase the risk of physical violence among married couples. AIMS: To estimate associations between premarital mental disorders and marital violence in a cross-national sample of married couples. METHOD: A total of 1821 married couples (3642 individuals) from 11 countries were interviewed as part of the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Sixteen mental disorders with onset prior to marriage were examined as predictors of marital violence reported by either spouse. RESULTS: Any physical violence was reported by one or both spouses in 20% of couples, and was associated with husbands' externalising disorders (OR = 1.7, 95% CI 1.2-2.3). Overall, the population attributable risk for marital violence related to premarital mental disorders was estimated to be 17.2%. CONCLUSIONS: Husbands' externalising disorders had a modest but consistent association with marital violence across diverse countries. This finding has implications for the development of targeted interventions to reduce risk of marital violence.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1250
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.110.084061
ID  - ref1
ER  -