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Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape
The challenges of conducting research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities means little is known about the occurrence of various forms of IPV, making it difficult to address in these populations. This research draws on data gathered in Chicago’s large and varied African immigr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417242 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia3030026 |
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author | Wenham, Kathryn Sebar, Bernadette Lee, Patricia Harris, Neil Campbell, Gabrielle |
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description | The challenges of conducting research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities means little is known about the occurrence of various forms of IPV, making it difficult to address in these populations. This research draws on data gathered in Chicago’s large and varied African immigrant communities. This research used a mixed methods approach: collection of quantitative survey data on occurrence, followed by qualitative interviews to explain the results. Missing quantitative data and contradicting qualitative responses made it difficult to draw definite conclusions on physical IPV; however, verbal abuse and controlling behaviours appear to be relatively widespread and normalised, and not always viewed as violence. Particularly with the probability of future pandemics and natural disasters, which are known to increase prevalence, it is important to raise awareness of less visible controlling behaviours and verbal abuse as forms of violence, and to implement appropriate prevention programs to minimise a concomitant rise in IPV within African immigrant communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-96208942022-11-18 Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape Wenham, Kathryn Sebar, Bernadette Lee, Patricia Harris, Neil Campbell, Gabrielle Epidemiologia (Basel) Article The challenges of conducting research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities means little is known about the occurrence of various forms of IPV, making it difficult to address in these populations. This research draws on data gathered in Chicago’s large and varied African immigrant communities. This research used a mixed methods approach: collection of quantitative survey data on occurrence, followed by qualitative interviews to explain the results. Missing quantitative data and contradicting qualitative responses made it difficult to draw definite conclusions on physical IPV; however, verbal abuse and controlling behaviours appear to be relatively widespread and normalised, and not always viewed as violence. Particularly with the probability of future pandemics and natural disasters, which are known to increase prevalence, it is important to raise awareness of less visible controlling behaviours and verbal abuse as forms of violence, and to implement appropriate prevention programs to minimise a concomitant rise in IPV within African immigrant communities. MDPI 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9620894/ /pubmed/36417242 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia3030026 Text en © 2022 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wenham, Kathryn Sebar, Bernadette Lee, Patricia Harris, Neil Campbell, Gabrielle Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title | Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title_full | Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title_fullStr | Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title_short | Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape |
title_sort | intimate partner violence in the sub-saharan african immigrant community in chicago: a changing landscape |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417242 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia3030026 |
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