Intimate partner violence and health-related quality of life in European men and women: Findings from the DOVE study
| Autor: | E. Ioannidi-Kapolou, Eleni Hatzidimitriadou, Henrique Barros, Joaquim Soares, Diogo Costa, Örjan Sundin, Jutta Lindert, Olga Toth |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Instituto de Saúde Pública |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Medicin och hälsovetenskap Health Status Health-related quality of life Poison control Suicide prevention Medical and Health Sciences Occupational safety and health 0302 clinical medicine 5. Gender equality Quality of life Surveys and Questionnaires 030212 general & internal medicine education.field_of_study Mental Disorders Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Middle Aged 16. Peace & justice humanities Multicenter study Europe Sexual Partners Female 0305 other medical science Adult medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Population education behavioral disciplines and activities Sexual coercion Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Injury prevention medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Psychiatry Aged 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health social sciences Intimate partner violence Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Spouse Abuse Quality of Life Domestic violence business |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| Popis: | PURPOSE: Little is known on the specific relation between being a perpetrator or both a victim and perpetrator of intimate partner violence (IPV) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We assessed the association between HRQoL and abuse, considering men and women as victims, perpetrators or reciprocally. METHODS: Participants were adult men and women (n = 3,496), randomly selected from the general population of six European cities. The Revised-Conflict-Tactics-Scales and the Medical-Outcomes-Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) were used to measure IPV and HRQoL. The age-, education-, and city-adjusted mean scores[standard error] of the physical and of the mental SF-36 component summaries were used to compare victims-only, perpetrators-only, and those involved in both (bidirectional or reciprocal cases) with those not involved in past-year and lifetime physical assault and/or sexual coercion. RESULTS: The physical component summary was significantly lower in women involved in past-year bidirectional physical assault compared with non-abused women. The mental component summary in women not involved in IPV was significantly higher than in those physically abused, regardless of type of involvement. Women victims-only of past-year sexual coercion and victims or involved in bidirectional concomitant physical and sexual IPV also presented lower scores in the mental component summary than women not involved in IPV. In men, significantly lower scores in the mental component summary were found in the past-year bidirectional physically assaulted group and among those involved bidirectionally in both physical and sexual IPV compared with men not involved in IPV. CONCLUSION: Experiencing physical and sexual IPV is negatively associated with HRQoL. Lower scores in the mental component summary of the SF-36 are evident among female victims and among males and females involved in intimate partner violence as both victims and perpetrators when compared to females and males not involved in violence. |
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