Prenatal health care counseling is associated with positive health outcomes for mothers and infants. Moreover, pregnant women are considered a vulnerable population at risk of being victims of intimate partner violence. Pregnancy provides a unique opportunity to identify and refer women experiencing intimate partner violence to community resources; however, in prior research, most women reporte...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of intimate partner violence and non-partner violence against women in Spain overall and by autonomous regions, as well as the characteristics of this violence, and to study the association between the prevalence of intimate partner violence and the frequency of formal complaints and deaths. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was performed through a self-ad...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence during pregnancy is the most common form of violence that harms the health of women and the fetus but practiced commonly in developing countries. There is scarcity of information regarding intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Ethiopia. Thus, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of intimate partner violence during recent p...

Because intimate violence tends to run in families, social learning theory posits that children learn to be violent through watching their parents and through being reinforced for their own aggressive behaviors. This account of intimate partner violence considers only environmental influences on familial resemblance, but familial resemblance may also be due to genetic factors. A genetically sen...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly being recognized as a major public health issue in the United States and internationally, representing a significant source of premature morbidity and mortality among women.1-4 Intimate partner violence adversely affects victims’ children and families and the communities in which they live.5,6 Women who experience intimate partner violence are at ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the efficacy of a psycho-behavioral intervention in reducing intimate partner violence recurrence during pregnancy and postpartum and in improving birth outcomes in African-American women. METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial for which 1,044 women were recruited. Women were randomly assigned to receive either intervention (n=521) or usual care (n=523). Indi...

BACKGROUND Although recent studies suggest that there is an association between intimate partner violence and child mortality, the underlying mechanisms are still unknown. It is against this background that as a secondary objective, we set out to explore whether an association exists between intimate partner violence and illness in infants. METHODS We conducted a population based household su...

Guns figure prominently in the homicide of women by an intimate partner. Less is known, however, about their nonfatal use against an intimate partner. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, we searched eight electronic databases and identified 10 original research articles that reported the prevalence of the nonfatal use of firearms aga...

Violence against African American women, specifically intimate partner abuse, has a significant impact on their health and well being. Intimate partner femicide and near fatal intimate partner femicide are the major causes of premature death and disabling injuries for African American women. Yet, despite this, there is a paucity of research and interventions specific and culturally relevant for...

Throughout history, the human race has been characterized by the use of physical and emotional aggression by individuals, particularly males, in their intimate relationships. Intimate abusiveness is particularly common among substance-dependent males. As a result of male intimate abusiveness, victims suffer a variety of problems, ranging from emotional trauma to death due to physical injury. De...