What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence? : findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence / Charlotte Abramsky, Charlotte H. Watts, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Karen Devries, Legia Kiss, Mary Ellsberg, Henrica AFM Jansen and Lori Heise
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In: BMC Public Health 2011, 11:109Summary: The main findings, recently published in the open access journal BMC Public Health are that:
• despite wide variations in the prevalence of IPV, many factors affect IPV risk similarly across sites.
• as far as IPV is concerned, high socio-economic status (SES) and formal marriage offer protection to women.
• alcohol abuse, cohabitation, young age, attitudes supportive of wife beating, having outside sexual partners and growing up with domestic violence increase the risk of IPV.
• similarly, experiencing or perpetrating other forms of violence in adulthood increase the risk of IPV.
• since risk of IPV is highest in younger women, schools are an important setting for primary prevention activities.
• particularly, schools have the potential to address issues of relationships, gender roles, power and coercion within existing youth violence and bullying programmes.
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BMC Public Health 2011, 11:109
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The main findings, recently published in the open access journal BMC Public Health are that:
• despite wide variations in the prevalence of IPV, many factors affect IPV risk similarly across sites.
• as far as IPV is concerned, high socio-economic status (SES) and formal marriage offer protection to women.
• alcohol abuse, cohabitation, young age, attitudes supportive of wife beating, having outside sexual partners and growing up with domestic violence increase the risk of IPV.
• similarly, experiencing or perpetrating other forms of violence in adulthood increase the risk of IPV.
• since risk of IPV is highest in younger women, schools are an important setting for primary prevention activities.
• particularly, schools have the potential to address issues of relationships, gender roles, power and coercion within existing youth violence and bullying programmes.