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040 _aAFVC
100 _aUsher, Kim
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245 _aFamily violence and COVID-19 :
_bincreased vulnerability and reduced options for support
_cKim Usher, Navjot Bhullar, Joanne Durkin, Naomi Gyamfi and Debra Jackson
260 _bWiley,
_c2020
500 _aInternational Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2020, Advance publication online, 20 April 2020
520 _aFamily violence during pandemics is associated with a range of factors including economic stress, disaster‐related instability, increased exposure to exploitative relationships, and reduced options for support (Peterman et al. 2020). Due to the social isolation measures implemented across the globe to help reduce the spread of COVID‐19, people living in volatile situations of family violence are restricted to their homes. Social isolation exacerbates personal and collective vulnerabilities while limiting accessible and familiar support options (van Gelder et al. 2020). In many countries, including Australia, we have already seen an increase in demand for domestic violence services and reports of increased risk for children not attending schools (Duncan, 2020), a pattern similar to previous episodes of social isolation associated with epidemics and pandemics (Boddy, Young & O’Leary 2020). In Australia, as stay‐at‐home orders came into force, the police in some parts of the country reported a 40% drop in crime overall, but a 5% increase in domestic abuse call‐outs (Kagi 2020). At the same time in Australia, Google reported a 75% increase in Internet searches relating to support for domestic abuse (Poate 2020). (From the introduction to this editorial). Record #6635
650 _aCOVID-19
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aFAMILY VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aPANDEMICS
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651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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700 _aBhullar, Navjot
_99064
700 _aDurkin, Joanne
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700 _aGyamfi, Naomi
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700 _aJackson, Debra
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773 0 _tInternational Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2020, Advance publication online, 20 April 2020
830 _aInternational Journal of Mental Health Nursing
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12735
_zDOI: 10.1111/inm.12735 (Open access)
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_cARTICLE