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Rates and relative risk of hospital admission among women in violent intimate partner relationships

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  • Kernic, M.A.
  • Wolf, M.E.
  • Holt, V.L.

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Objectives. This study assessed the history of hospitalization among women involved in violent intimate relationships. Methods. In this 1-year retrospective cohort study, female residents of King County, Washington, who were aged 18 to 44 years and who had filed for a protection order were compared with nonabused women in the same age group. Outcome measures included overall and diagnosis-specific hospital admission rates and relative risk of hospitalization associated with abuse. Results. Women known to be exposed to a violent intimate relationship were significantly more likely to be hospitalized with any diagnosis (age-specific relative risks [RRs] ranging from 1.2 to 2.1), psychiatric diagnoses (RR=3.6, 95% confidence interval [CI] =2.8, 4.6), injury and poisoning diagnoses (RR= 1.8, 95% CI= 1.2, 2.8), digestive system diseases (RR= 1.9, 95% CI= 1.3, 2.9), and diagnoses of assault (RR=4.9,95% CI= 1.1, 22.1) or attempted suicide (RR= 3.7, 95% CI = 1.6, 9.2) in the year before filing a protection order. Conclusions. This study showed an increased relative risk of both overall and diagnosis-specific hospitalizations among abused women. Intimate partner violence has a significant impact on women's health and use of health care.

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  • Kernic, M.A. & Wolf, M.E. & Holt, V.L., 2000. "Rates and relative risk of hospital admission among women in violent intimate partner relationships," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 90(9), pages 1416-1420.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2000:90:9:1416-1420_7
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    1. Danielle M Davidov & Stephen M Davis & Motao Zhu & Tracie O Afifi & Melissa Kimber & Abby L Goldstein & Nicole Pitre & Kelly K Gurka & Carol Stocks, 2017. "Intimate partner violence-related hospitalizations in Appalachia and the non-Appalachian United States," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-17, September.
    2. Russo, J.E. & Yong, Kevyn, 2011. "The distortion of information to support an emerging evaluation of risk," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 162(1), pages 132-139, May.
    3. Oliver Nahkur & Dagmar Kutsar & Rein Murakas, 2017. "A Two-Dimensional Two-Layered Societal Index of Interpersonal Destructiveness: Internal Consistency Analysis," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 133(2), pages 431-454, September.
    4. Farzad Rahmani & Shiva Salmasi & Farnaz Rahmani & Jamie Bird & Elnaz Asghari & Navide Robai & Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi & Leila Gholizadeh, 2019. "Domestic violence and suicide attempts among married women: A case–control study," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(17-18), pages 3252-3261, September.

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