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Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Quality of life among abused women in Norway in 2006 was found to be significantly low compared to women at the same age in general. The aim of this study was to examine how quality of life is associated with experience of psychological and physical violence intimate partner violence amo...

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Autores principales: Alsaker, Kjersti, Moen, Bente E., Morken, Tone, Baste, Valborg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0638-5
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author Alsaker, Kjersti
Moen, Bente E.
Morken, Tone
Baste, Valborg
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Moen, Bente E.
Morken, Tone
Baste, Valborg
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description BACKGROUND: Quality of life among abused women in Norway in 2006 was found to be significantly low compared to women at the same age in general. The aim of this study was to examine how quality of life is associated with experience of psychological and physical violence intimate partner violence among abused women seeking help after domestic partner abuse comparted to quality of life in a random sample of women in Norway. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in a random sample of 1500 women (response rate 36%, n = 469) in Norway were performed. In addition, 191 women who sought help after domestic partner abuse were invited (44%, n = 84). The experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) and health-related quality of life were measured in both samples. The participants were divided into: “Women seeking help” after domestic partner abuse (n = 84); “Random sample, abused women” (n = 127); and “Random sample, not abused women” (n = 342). RESULTS: The experience of psychological and physical violence was significantly different between the groups (p <  0.0001). The domains in SF-12 were significantly below (p <  0.001) the norm for the female population in Norway in all dimensions among the abused women in the random population sample, and even lower among the women seeking help because of IPV. CONCLUSION: Intimate partner violence is clearly associated with low quality of life. The pattern found in this study is similar to the pattern found in the previous Norwegian study among abused women seeking help.
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spelling pubmed-61239592018-09-10 Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study Alsaker, Kjersti Moen, Bente E. Morken, Tone Baste, Valborg BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Quality of life among abused women in Norway in 2006 was found to be significantly low compared to women at the same age in general. The aim of this study was to examine how quality of life is associated with experience of psychological and physical violence intimate partner violence among abused women seeking help after domestic partner abuse comparted to quality of life in a random sample of women in Norway. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in a random sample of 1500 women (response rate 36%, n = 469) in Norway were performed. In addition, 191 women who sought help after domestic partner abuse were invited (44%, n = 84). The experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) and health-related quality of life were measured in both samples. The participants were divided into: “Women seeking help” after domestic partner abuse (n = 84); “Random sample, abused women” (n = 127); and “Random sample, not abused women” (n = 342). RESULTS: The experience of psychological and physical violence was significantly different between the groups (p <  0.0001). The domains in SF-12 were significantly below (p <  0.001) the norm for the female population in Norway in all dimensions among the abused women in the random population sample, and even lower among the women seeking help because of IPV. CONCLUSION: Intimate partner violence is clearly associated with low quality of life. The pattern found in this study is similar to the pattern found in the previous Norwegian study among abused women seeking help. BioMed Central 2018-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6123959/ /pubmed/30180829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0638-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Morken, Tone
Baste, Valborg
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title_fullStr Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study
title_short Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study
title_sort intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0638-5
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