ArticleJournal of interpersonal violence2022
Barriers to Men's Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence.
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- Prevalence and associated factors of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence against men in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study.Nature human behaviour · 2025Pooled it
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- Disability and intimate partner violence in England: gender stratified analyses of a probability sample survey.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Rates of Loneliness in Adulthood.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Experiences and Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence Against Men in Northern Ireland: Qualitative Findings from the Male Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Male Intimate Partner Violence Victims.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Domestic Violence Against Men in Canada: An Overlooked but Growing Public Health and Social Concern.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Against Men in Germany-A Study on Prevalence, Victim-Offender Overlap, and the Role of Parental Violence.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- What Matters in Help-Seeking and Disclosure Intent of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Similarities and Differences Across Demographic Groups.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Locked down, locked out: a cross-sectional study on experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) and barriers to formal and informal support during COVID-19 lockdowns in Ontario.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Factors for Perceived Helpfulness of Support Sources Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Paternal perinatal intimate partner violence victimization and child abuse.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Adult ADHD predicts intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization irrespective of gender and age.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- CALD Communities as "Collateral Damage" in the Criminalization of Coercive Control: An Argument for Prioritizing Civil System Reform Over Further Criminalization in Victoria.Violence against women · 2025Article
- Beyond Physical and Mental Health: The Broader Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on Psychosocial Well-Being Among Women and Men Veterans.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Breaking the cycle: addressing barriers to help-seeking and mental health impacts for male victims of intimate partner violence in low-and middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Victim help-seeking patterns and how they can inform future support services for victims of intimate partner violence.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Help-seeking behavior of male victims of intimate partner violence in Japan.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Evidence suggests that male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are less likely to seek help for their victimization than female victims. Studies exploring barriers to help seeking are relatively scarce in the United Kingdom (UK) and those that have been undertaken across Europe, United States, Canada, and Australia have tended to rely on small samples of help-seeking men who have self-identified as victims of IPV. With a view to include more male victim voices in the literature, an anonymous qualitative questionnaire was distributed via social media. In total, 147 men (85% from the UK) who self-identified as being subject to abuse from their female partners, completed the questionnaire. The data was subjected to a deductive thematic analysis and one superordinate and two overarching themes were identified. The superordinate theme was stigmatized gender and the two overarching themes (subthemes in parentheses) were barriers prohibiting help seeking (status and credibility, health and well-being) and responses to initial help seeking (discreditation, exclusion/isolation, and helpfulness). The findings are discussed in the context of Overstreet and Quinn's (2013) interpersonal violence and stigma model and findings from previous research. The conclusions and recommendations promote education and training and advocate a radical change to policy.
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