Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem associated with high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Few longitudinal studies have investigated IPV-related PTSD and we know of only 1 longitudinal study to date that has explored IPV-related PTSD in residents of battered women's shelters. The current report describes a prospective study of IPV-related PTSD in...

Heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was investigated in 123 subjects with no apparent risk factor for infection other than having had heterosexual intercourse with a person who was either infected with HIV or at high risk of being infected with it. Seven subjects were found to be infected with the virus. Risk factors for transmission included being the regular sexual...

BACKGROUND Although childhood abuse is an important correlate of suicidality, not all individuals who were abused as children attempt suicide. AIMS To identify correlates and moderators of suicide attempts in adults reporting childhood physical abuse, contact sexual abuse, or both. METHOD A French-Canadian, school-based cohort (n=1684) was prospectively followed. RESULTS The identity of t...

OBJECTIVES to analyse the knowledge, beliefs and perception of the professional role that nursing students have, about exerted violence against women in relationships. METHOD a descriptive qualitative study following the ecological model through 16 focus groups realized with 112 students from four nursing courses of four Spanish universities. RESULTS the analytical categories were: knowledg...

Elderly men and women of all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds are vulnerable to mistreatment, and most often it goes undetected. For many elderly victims of abuse, the hospital is the only potential site for outside contact and support. An elder abuse program has been created at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and funding was granted to assist victims with compensation claims; pr...

Agile processes have been deemed unsuitable for security sensitive software development as the rigors of assurance are seen to conflict with the lightweight and informal nature of agile processes. However, such apparently conflicting demands may be reconciled by introducing the new notion of abuser stories in the requirements domain. These extend the wellestablished concept of user stories to a...

Although the fields of bereavement and traumatology regarding childhood physical and sexual abuse have developed simultaneously, little information exists regarding the issues of bereavement for a sexual abuse survivor when the decedent was the abuser. This article is a case study that examines the reactions, themes, and attributions that individuals experience regarding the loss of a relative ...