Acquired Brain Injuries and Intimate Partner Violence: A Situational Analysis of Help Seeking Barriers in Rural Northern New England

Ivany, Amanda St.; Schminkey, Donna; Munro‐Kramer, Michelle L.

doi:10.1177/23333936211008163

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“…Health professionals also expressed concern about screening fatigue and screening for something with no or limited resources and therefore leading to lack of treatment interventions or ability to refer for treatment interventions (Patch et al, 2021). The lack of treatment interventions was more pronounced in rural regions than in urban regions (St Ivany et al, 2021). This is important in the New Zealand and Australian contexts due to a higher proportion of their Indigenous populations living in rural areas rather than large urban areas and who already endure the most health inequalities.…”

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“…Some victims experience larger barriers than others, potentially associated with social economic status and geographic regions (Jacob et al, 2020; Patch et al, 2021; St Ivany et al, 2021). Barriers to self‐disclosure highlight the particular risk of settings in which strangulation is not screened, or not asked outright, as this places all responsibility for detection with the victim.…”

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Front‐line health professionals' recognition and responses to nonfatal strangulation events: An integrative review

Donaldson

Hurren

Harvey

et al. 2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim:The aim of this study was to determine how front-line health professionals identify and manage nonfatal strangulation events.Design: Integrative review with narrative synthesis was conducted. DataSources: A comprehensive database search was conducted in six electronic databases (CINAHL, Wed of Science, DISCOVER, SCOPUS, PubMed and Scholar) resulting in 49 potentially eligible full texts, reduced to 10 articles for inclusion after exclusion criteria were applied. Review Methods: An integrative review was undertaken in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement guidelines. Data were extracted, and a narrative synthesis using Whittemore and Knafl (2005) framework was undertaken to determine how front-line health professionals identify and manage nonfatal strangulation events. Results: The findings identified three main themes: an overall failure by health professionals to recognize nonfatal strangulation, a failure to report the event and a failure to follow up on victims after the event. Stigma and predetermined beliefs around nonfatal strangulation, along with a lack of knowledge about signs and symptoms, were the salient features in the literature. Conclusion: Lack of training and fear of not knowing what to do next are barriers to providing care to victims of strangulation. Failure to detect, manage and support victims will continue the cycle of harm through the long-term health effects of strangulation. Early detection and management of strangulation are essential to prevent health complications, particularly when the victims are exposed to such behaviours repeatedly. Impact: This review appears to be the first to explore how health professionals identify and manage nonfatal strangulation. It identified the significant need for education and robust and consistent screening and discharge policies to assist health providers of services where victims of nonfatal strangulation attend. No Patient or Public Contribution: This review contains no patient or public contribution since it was examining health professionals' knowledge of identifying nonfatal strangulation and the screening and assessment tools used in clinical practice.

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Front‐line health professionals' recognition and responses to nonfatal strangulation events: An integrative review

Donaldson

Hurren

Harvey

et al. 2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Participants described moderate intensities, on average, but their estimates of intensity were subjective. Strangulation injuries can be present even without noticeable bruising or other visible signs (Bichard et al, 2021;St. Ivany et al, 2021).…”

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Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Herbenick

Eastman-Mueller

et al. 2022

Arch Sex Behav

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Although sexual choking is now prevalent, little is known about how people engage in choking in terms of frequency, intensity, method, or potential health sequelae. In a campus-representative survey of undergraduate and graduate students, we aimed to: (1) describe the prevalence of ever having choked/been choked as part of sex; (2) examine the characteristics of choking one's sexual partners (e.g., age at first experience, number of partners, frequency, intensity, method); (3) examine the characteristics of having been choked during sex; and (4) assess immediate responses of having been choked including the extent to which frequency and method (e.g., hand, ligature, limb) of having been choked predicts the range of responses endorsed by participants. A total of 4254 randomly sampled students (2668 undergraduate, 1576 graduate) completed a confidential online survey during Spring 2021. The mean age of first choking/being choked was about 19, with more undergraduates than graduate students reporting first choking/ being choked in adolescence. Women and transgender/gender non-binary participants were significantly more likely to have been choked than men. Participants more often reported the use of hands compared to limbs or ligature. Common responses to being choked were pleasurable sensations/euphoria (81.7%), a head rush (43.8%), feeling like they could not breathe (43.0%), difficulty swallowing (38.9%), unable to speak (37.6%), and watery eyes (37.2%). About 15% had noticed neck bruising and 3% had lost consciousness from being choked. Greater frequency and intensity of being choked was associated with reports of more physical responses as was use of limb (arm, leg) or ligature.

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“…The high percentage of head injuries among male IPV victims suggests a need to focus on the potential of acquired brain injuries among men. Recently, St Ivany et al (2021) discussed the importance of acquired brain injuries among IPV victims, but focused entirely on women. To our knowledge, there is no mention in the literature on male IPV victims’ risk for brain injuries, even though there's evidence from the current study and others that this is a risk for male IPV victims (Hines & Douglas, 2010a, 2010b, 2015, 2016a, 2019).…”

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Injury patterns and associated demographics of intimate partner violence in men presenting to U.S. emergency departments

Khurana

Hines

Johnson

et al. 2021

Aggressive Behavior

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Research suggests that there are differences between sexes in physical intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization that could lead to different injury patterns. In addition, research shows that men under‐report their injuries yet may suffer grave consequences. It is, thus, vital to establish physical injury patterns in male IPV victims. A retrospective review of prospectively collected data was performed using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System‐All Injury Program data from 2005 to 2015 for all IPV‐related injuries in both male and female patients. Sex differences by demographics, mechanism, anatomic location, and diagnoses of IPV injuries were analyzed using statistical methods accounting for the weighted stratified nature of the data. IPV accounted for 0.61% of all emergency department visits; 17.2% were in males and 82.8% in females. Male patients were older (36.1% vs. 16.8% over 60 years), more likely to be Black (40.5% vs. 28.8%), sustained more injuries due to cutting (28.1% vs. 3.5%), more lacerations (46.9% vs. 13.0%), more injuries to the upper extremity (25.8% vs. 14.1%), and fewer contusions/abrasions (30.1% vs. 49.0%), compared to female IPV patients (p < .0001). There were also more hospitalizations in men (7.9% vs. 3.7% p = .0002). Knowledge of specific IPV‐related injury characteristics in men will enable healthcare providers to counteract underreporting of IPV.

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Acquired Brain Injuries and Intimate Partner Violence: A Situational Analysis of Help Seeking Barriers in Rural Northern New England

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Front‐line health professionals' recognition and responses to nonfatal strangulation events: An integrative review

Front‐line health professionals' recognition and responses to nonfatal strangulation events: An integrative review

Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Injury patterns and associated demographics of intimate partner violence in men presenting to U.S. emergency departments

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