ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2020
The effect of intimate partner violence on women's mental distress: a prospective cohort study of 3010 rural Indian women.
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- Psychological distress, intimate partner violence and substance use in a representative sample from Mexico: A structural equation model.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Stressful life events, intimate partner violence, and perceived stress in the postpartum period: longitudinal findings in rural Pakistan.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
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- Predictors of spousal coercive control and its association with intimate partner violence evidence from National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-2016) India.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Intimate partner violence and exclusive breastfeeding of infants: analysis of the 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeIntimate partner violence (IPV) encompasses physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, as well as controlling behavior. Most research focuses on physical and sexual abuse, and other aspects of IPV are rarely investigated. We estimated the effect of these neglected aspects of IPV on women's mental distress.
methodsWe used data from 3010 women living in rural tribal communities in Rajasthan, India. Women completed baseline interviews and were re-interviewed approximately 1.5 years later. We measured IPV with questions adopted from the Demographic and Health Survey's Domestic Violence Module, which asked seven questions about physical abuse, three questions about psychological abuse, and five questions about partner controlling behavior. Mental distress was measured with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (score range 0-12). We used Poisson regression models to estimate the relation between changes in IPV and mental distress, accounting for time-fixed characteristics of individuals using individual fixed effects.
resultsWomen reported an average of 2.1 distress symptoms during baseline interviews. In models that controlled for time-varying confounding (e.g., wealth, other types of abuse), experiencing psychological abuse was associated with an increase of 0.65 distress symptoms (95% CI 0.32, 0.98), and experiencing controlling behavior was associated with an increase of 0.31 distress symptoms (95% CI 0.18, 0.44). However, experiencing physical abuse was not associated with an increase in distress symptoms (mean difference = - 0.15, 95% CI - 0.45, 0.15).
conclusionsPsychological abuse and controlling behavior may be important drivers of the relation between IPV and women's mental health.
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