Background: Domestic violence against women is a significant public health issue in both developed and developing countries of the world. Intimate partner violence during pregnancy can result in adverse outcomes for both mothers and their infants. Partner violence against women is common during pregnancy and might have an adverse effect on the mental health of women during antenatal pregnancy. ...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem in Africa and worldwide. HIV infected women face increased IPV risk. We assessed the prevalence and factors associated with IPV among HIV infected women attending HIV care in Kabale hospital, Uganda. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted among 317 HIV infected women attending Kabale regional hospital HIV tr...

BACKGROUND Among women, risk factors for mental disorders are violence, economical inequities and disadvantages and discrimination. AIM To determine the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in women and to determine factors associated with them. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross sectional study of a probabilistic sample of 422 women aged 34 years as a mean, living in a medium to low inc...

In this paper, we examined the association between relationship violence and psychological distress among low-income urban women. Extending prior research, we considered the effects of relationship violence within the context of other chronic stressors that are common in the lives of these women. Using data from the Welfare, Children, and Families project (1999), a probability sample of 2,402 l...

Psychological partner violence is a considerable problem, despite its invisible outcomes on victims' physical health. Focusing on mental health, the present study looked at differences in mental illness, such as depression, stress, and anxiety, among victims and non-victims of psychological violence. A convenience sample of women (n = 267) visiting health-care centres in refugee camps in Jordan...

This paper defines and analyzes the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country, providing a taxonomy of its strategies of psychological violence. The usefulness of this taxonomy has been tested and contrasted by means of a content analysis of 19 testimonies of persons who were the victims of violence by the terrorist network. The taxonomy of strategies of psychologi...

BACKGROUND Sexist attitudes are one of the factors that justify domestic violence. Positive psychology can provide keys to prevent sexist violence at an early age. Psychological values are a group of psychological strengths in a person's development. They provide important clues for the prevention of gender-based violence. METHOD This study presents an assessment of two groups of variables, s...

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between exposure to chronic community violence and upper respiratory illness (URI) symptoms among urban adolescents of color; and to test the generality of a model of the relationship between social stress and URI. METHOD The research used a cross-sectional correlational design. The sample was 769 first-semester first-year students in an urban nonresidentia...

Intimate partner violence offenders often use victim-blaming attributions to explain their own violent behavior. These attributions represent an important challenge for intervention programs for intimatepartner violence offenders. The main objectives of this study were to analyze both the influence of social support and stressful life events on the psychological adjustment (self-esteem and depr...