TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Do pregnant teens have higher risk of intimate partner violence than pregnant adult women in Mexico?
JO  - Health (Irvine Calif)
A1  - Santiago, Rosario Valdez
A1  - Iñiguez,, Mariana Mojarro
A1  - Solorzano, Elisa Hidalgo
A1  - Burgos, Leticia Avila
A1  - Monreal, Luz Arenas
SP  - 2814
EP  - 2824
VL  - 6
IS  - 20
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study is to estimate the prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and identify factors linked to it in pregnant Mexican adult and adolescent women. <br><br>METHODS: Data were gathered by the National Survey of Violence against Women (2006), applied to women between the ages 15-49, users of Mexican public health institutions. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to explore the significant factors associated with IPV against pregnant women. <br><br>RESULTS: Both adolescent and adult study participating women showed a 24% prevalence of current IPV (during the previous 12 months). The study's multivariate model for adult women revealed the following as main predictors for IPV: a woman's agreement with traditional gender roles (OR = 4.35, CI95% = 2.20 - 8.60), and women with a history of childhood sexual abuse (OR = 2.76, CI95% = 1.68 - 4.55). The main predictor of IPV in pregnant adolescents was their partners' frequency of alcohol consumption: often/usually (OR = 6.49, CI95% = 2.18 - 19.33). <br><br>CONCLUSION: To this date, Mexico has not been able to guarantee universal screening methods for IPV as a part of prenatal care protocols. The phenomenon of IPV towards pregnant women neither has been followed-up by further research nor has been identified as a public health problem in spite of the seriousness of its implications for women and their offspring.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1949-4998
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2014.620320
ID  - ref1
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