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Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data
PURPOSE: Among homicides in the United States, intimate partners kill almost 50% of female and 10% of male victims. Intimate partner violence (IPV) also contributes to an estimated 6% of suicides. These trends suggest that opportunities for IPV interventions prior to the fatalities may have been mis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9838333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36685752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00487-2 |
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author | AbiNader, Millan A. Graham, Laurie M. Kafka, Julie M. |
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description | PURPOSE: Among homicides in the United States, intimate partners kill almost 50% of female and 10% of male victims. Intimate partner violence (IPV) also contributes to an estimated 6% of suicides. These trends suggest that opportunities for IPV interventions prior to the fatalities may have been missed. Thus, researchers must investigate the context and circumstances of IPV-related fatalities to inform effective prevention strategy development. There are two primary national fatality databases that can be used to examine such factors: the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS, homicide and suicides); and the Uniform Crime Reporting-Supplementary Homicide Reports (UCR-SHR, homicides). These datasets include data on many IPV-related violent deaths but are limited by variations in data quality. METHOD: This critical review summarizes opportunities and challenges when examining IPV-related fatalities using these national datasets. To document how the current literature is conceptualizing IPV, a rapid review on IPV-related homicide and suicide articles was performed (2019–2022). Missingness analyses were conducted to describe limitations in key dataset variables. RESULTS: These datasets enable tracking IPV-related fatalities nationally over time. However, issues with the operationalization of variables that record IPV circumstances, particularly in the UCR-SHR, and high levels of missingness represent significant barriers to research. Novel methodologies can optimize the use of these datasets. CONCLUSION: National-level datasets enable researchers to examine IPV-related fatalities, evaluate policy differences between states, and monitor trends and disparities. This research can inform key recommendations for interventions to prevent IPV-related fatalities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10896-022-00487-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-98383332023-01-17 Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data AbiNader, Millan A. Graham, Laurie M. Kafka, Julie M. J Fam Violence Original Article PURPOSE: Among homicides in the United States, intimate partners kill almost 50% of female and 10% of male victims. Intimate partner violence (IPV) also contributes to an estimated 6% of suicides. These trends suggest that opportunities for IPV interventions prior to the fatalities may have been missed. Thus, researchers must investigate the context and circumstances of IPV-related fatalities to inform effective prevention strategy development. There are two primary national fatality databases that can be used to examine such factors: the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS, homicide and suicides); and the Uniform Crime Reporting-Supplementary Homicide Reports (UCR-SHR, homicides). These datasets include data on many IPV-related violent deaths but are limited by variations in data quality. METHOD: This critical review summarizes opportunities and challenges when examining IPV-related fatalities using these national datasets. To document how the current literature is conceptualizing IPV, a rapid review on IPV-related homicide and suicide articles was performed (2019–2022). Missingness analyses were conducted to describe limitations in key dataset variables. RESULTS: These datasets enable tracking IPV-related fatalities nationally over time. However, issues with the operationalization of variables that record IPV circumstances, particularly in the UCR-SHR, and high levels of missingness represent significant barriers to research. Novel methodologies can optimize the use of these datasets. CONCLUSION: National-level datasets enable researchers to examine IPV-related fatalities, evaluate policy differences between states, and monitor trends and disparities. This research can inform key recommendations for interventions to prevent IPV-related fatalities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10896-022-00487-2. Springer US 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9838333/ /pubmed/36685752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00487-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article AbiNader, Millan A. Graham, Laurie M. Kafka, Julie M. Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title | Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title_full | Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title_fullStr | Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title_short | Examining Intimate Partner Violence-Related Fatalities: Past Lessons and Future Directions Using U.S. National Data |
title_sort | examining intimate partner violence-related fatalities: past lessons and future directions using u.s. national data |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9838333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36685752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00487-2 |
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