TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Concentrations of salivary cortisol in victims of intimate partner violence according to the CIRCORT Database JO - International journal of environmental research and public health A1 - Mata-Gil, Sarai A1 - Sánchez-Cabaco, Antonio A1 - Del Moral-Martínez, Jerónimo A1 - Seisdedos-Benito, Antonio A1 - Lundberg, Ulf SP - e10819 EP - e10819 VL - 18 IS - 20 N2 - This work analyzes the different levels of salivary cortisol in women from the southwest of Spain that were victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) with respect to a control group, assessing for the first time the different concentrations obtained in relation to a worldwide reference standard provided by the CIRCORT meta-global cortisol database. The clinical sample (N = 24) and the control group (N = 25) had an average of 39.12 years (SD = 12.31) and 39.52 years (SD = 11.74), respectively. Cortisol awakening response (CAR) was determined by defining the area under the curve (AUCi). There were no differences between the CAR data of the two populations F (1, 141) = 1.690, p = 0.196, but there was a highly significant difference in the three sampling days, where the clinical sample exceeded the cortisol levels of the CIRCORT database in the evening as compared to the control group (p = 0.004, p = 0.001 and p = 0.000). Salivary cortisol concentration samples taken in the evening were significantly higher than those standardized in the CIRCORT database, from the women victims of IPV as compared to the control group, showing its usefulness as an effective supportive tool for problems such as those triggered by IPV.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1661-7827 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010819 ID - ref1 ER -