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Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Phenomenon from Victims’ and Help Professionals’ Perspectives

Social isolation is considered one of the main risk factors leading to intimate partner violence episodes; this evidence also emerged during the application of stay-at-home policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, we aimed to collect data on intimate partner violence over the last...

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Autores principales: Lausi, Giulia, Pizzo, Alessandra, Cricenti, Clarissa, Baldi, Michela, Desiderio, Rita, Giannini, Anna Maria, Mari, Emanuela
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201161
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126204
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author Lausi, Giulia
Pizzo, Alessandra
Cricenti, Clarissa
Baldi, Michela
Desiderio, Rita
Giannini, Anna Maria
Mari, Emanuela
author_facet Lausi, Giulia
Pizzo, Alessandra
Cricenti, Clarissa
Baldi, Michela
Desiderio, Rita
Giannini, Anna Maria
Mari, Emanuela
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description Social isolation is considered one of the main risk factors leading to intimate partner violence episodes; this evidence also emerged during the application of stay-at-home policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, we aimed to collect data on intimate partner violence over the last year, comparing data reported by victims with data collected by help professionals. In accordance with PRISMA guidelines, through keywords related to abuse, pandemic and containment measures, 3174 articles were identified for screening. After full-text reading and risk of bias analysis, 19 studies were included, and a thematic synthesis was conducted according to two categories: “studies with victims” and “studies with help professionals”. The results of the present review showed that there were significant differences between the data provided by victims and the data collected by health care facilities and police departments; additionally, differences among different forms and severity of victimization emerged. The results have been discussed according to the literature; in particular, we reflected on how containment measures have apparently made it more difficult for victims to report, thus making the existence of the dark figure of crime even more salient.
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spelling pubmed-82276802021-06-26 Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Phenomenon from Victims’ and Help Professionals’ Perspectives Lausi, Giulia Pizzo, Alessandra Cricenti, Clarissa Baldi, Michela Desiderio, Rita Giannini, Anna Maria Mari, Emanuela Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Social isolation is considered one of the main risk factors leading to intimate partner violence episodes; this evidence also emerged during the application of stay-at-home policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, we aimed to collect data on intimate partner violence over the last year, comparing data reported by victims with data collected by help professionals. In accordance with PRISMA guidelines, through keywords related to abuse, pandemic and containment measures, 3174 articles were identified for screening. After full-text reading and risk of bias analysis, 19 studies were included, and a thematic synthesis was conducted according to two categories: “studies with victims” and “studies with help professionals”. The results of the present review showed that there were significant differences between the data provided by victims and the data collected by health care facilities and police departments; additionally, differences among different forms and severity of victimization emerged. The results have been discussed according to the literature; in particular, we reflected on how containment measures have apparently made it more difficult for victims to report, thus making the existence of the dark figure of crime even more salient. MDPI 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8227680/ /pubmed/34201161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126204 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pizzo, Alessandra
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Baldi, Michela
Desiderio, Rita
Giannini, Anna Maria
Mari, Emanuela
Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Phenomenon from Victims’ and Help Professionals’ Perspectives
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title_full_unstemmed Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Phenomenon from Victims’ and Help Professionals’ Perspectives
title_short Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Phenomenon from Victims’ and Help Professionals’ Perspectives
title_sort intimate partner violence during the covid-19 pandemic: a review of the phenomenon from victims’ and help professionals’ perspectives
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201161
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126204
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