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Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health issue that affects millions of women worldwide. Women living below the poverty line experience higher rates of violence and fewer resources to escape or cope with the abuse, and the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted...

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Autores principales: Giacomini, Sâmia GMO, Machado, Márcia MT, de Santana, Onélia MML, Rocha, Sabrina GMO, de Aquino, Camila M., Gomes, Laécia GA, de Albuquerque, Lucas S., de Soares, Maria D. A., Leite, Álvaro JM, Correia, Luciano L., Rocha, Hermano AL
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10327360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37415137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16233-2
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author Giacomini, Sâmia GMO
Machado, Márcia MT
de Santana, Onélia MML
Rocha, Sabrina GMO
de Aquino, Camila M.
Gomes, Laécia GA
de Albuquerque, Lucas S.
de Soares, Maria D. A.
Leite, Álvaro JM
Correia, Luciano L.
Rocha, Hermano AL
author_facet Giacomini, Sâmia GMO
Machado, Márcia MT
de Santana, Onélia MML
Rocha, Sabrina GMO
de Aquino, Camila M.
Gomes, Laécia GA
de Albuquerque, Lucas S.
de Soares, Maria D. A.
Leite, Álvaro JM
Correia, Luciano L.
Rocha, Hermano AL
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description BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health issue that affects millions of women worldwide. Women living below the poverty line experience higher rates of violence and fewer resources to escape or cope with the abuse, and the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted women’s economic well-being worldwide. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Ceará, Brazil, on women in families with children living below the poverty line at the peak of the second wave of COVID to assess the prevalence of IPV and its association with common mental disorders(CMD). METHODS: The study population comprised families with children up to six years of age who participated in the cash transfer program “Mais Infância”. The families selected to participate in this program must meet a poverty criterion: families must live in rural areas, in addition to a monthly per capita income of less than US$16.50 per month. We applied specific instruments to evaluate IPV and CMD. To access IPV, we used the Partner Violence Screen (PVS). The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used to assess CMD. To verify the association between IPV and the other evaluated factors with CMD, simple and hierarchical multiple logistic models were used. RESULTS: Of the 479 participant women, 22% were positively screened for IPV (95% CI 18.2–26.2). After multivariate adjustment, the chances of CMD are 2.32 higher in women exposed to IPV than in those not exposed to IPV ((95%CI 1.30–4.13), p value = 0.004). CMD was also associated with job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic (ORa 2.13 (95% CI 1.09–4.35), p-value 0.029). In addition to these, separate or single marital status, as well as non-presence of the father at home and food insecurity were associated with CMD. CONCLUSION: We conclude that the prevalence of intimate partner violence in families with children up to six years of age living below the poverty line in Ceará is high and is associated with greater chances of common mental disorders in mothers. Also, job loss and reduced access to food caused by the Covid 19 pandemic exacerbated both phenomena, constituting a double burden generator factor on mothers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-16233-2.
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spelling pubmed-103273602023-07-08 Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil Giacomini, Sâmia GMO Machado, Márcia MT de Santana, Onélia MML Rocha, Sabrina GMO de Aquino, Camila M. Gomes, Laécia GA de Albuquerque, Lucas S. de Soares, Maria D. A. Leite, Álvaro JM Correia, Luciano L. Rocha, Hermano AL BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health issue that affects millions of women worldwide. Women living below the poverty line experience higher rates of violence and fewer resources to escape or cope with the abuse, and the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted women’s economic well-being worldwide. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Ceará, Brazil, on women in families with children living below the poverty line at the peak of the second wave of COVID to assess the prevalence of IPV and its association with common mental disorders(CMD). METHODS: The study population comprised families with children up to six years of age who participated in the cash transfer program “Mais Infância”. The families selected to participate in this program must meet a poverty criterion: families must live in rural areas, in addition to a monthly per capita income of less than US$16.50 per month. We applied specific instruments to evaluate IPV and CMD. To access IPV, we used the Partner Violence Screen (PVS). The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used to assess CMD. To verify the association between IPV and the other evaluated factors with CMD, simple and hierarchical multiple logistic models were used. RESULTS: Of the 479 participant women, 22% were positively screened for IPV (95% CI 18.2–26.2). After multivariate adjustment, the chances of CMD are 2.32 higher in women exposed to IPV than in those not exposed to IPV ((95%CI 1.30–4.13), p value = 0.004). CMD was also associated with job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic (ORa 2.13 (95% CI 1.09–4.35), p-value 0.029). In addition to these, separate or single marital status, as well as non-presence of the father at home and food insecurity were associated with CMD. CONCLUSION: We conclude that the prevalence of intimate partner violence in families with children up to six years of age living below the poverty line in Ceará is high and is associated with greater chances of common mental disorders in mothers. Also, job loss and reduced access to food caused by the Covid 19 pandemic exacerbated both phenomena, constituting a double burden generator factor on mothers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-16233-2. BioMed Central 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10327360/ /pubmed/37415137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16233-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Giacomini, Sâmia GMO
Machado, Márcia MT
de Santana, Onélia MML
Rocha, Sabrina GMO
de Aquino, Camila M.
Gomes, Laécia GA
de Albuquerque, Lucas S.
de Soares, Maria D. A.
Leite, Álvaro JM
Correia, Luciano L.
Rocha, Hermano AL
Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title_full Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title_fullStr Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title_short Intimate Partner Violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during COVID-19 pandemics in Ceará, Brazil
title_sort intimate partner violence among women living in families with children under the poverty line and its association with common mental disorders during covid-19 pandemics in ceará, brazil
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10327360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37415137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16233-2
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