Putting intimate partner violence on your radar

Abstract

Intimate partner violence is a preventable health problem that affects more than 12 million people in the United States each year. Those affected can be of any sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, education level, or sexual orientation. All clinicians should screen for intimate partner violence as part of the routine history and physical examination. This article describes the dynamics of intimate partner violence and the 2013 screening guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task Force.

Screening Tool for Psychological Intimate Partner Violence: Portuguese Validation of the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory

“…The validation of a comprehensive and systematic tool for psychological IPV in this culturally specific context is a step toward the pursuit of the following goals: (a) providing a means for early identification of the perpetrative behaviors that can be targeted for intervention; (b) increasing public awareness and funding for prevention campaigns; (c) preventing the progression to other forms of IPV; (d) informing intervention programs about methods for the reduction of symptoms and the enhancement of global functioning; (e) improving the knowledge related to etiology, prevalence rates, risk factors, and consequences; (f) facilitating cross-country comparative studies with the same assessment tool; and (g) allocating resources and appropriate support in health care settings (Collett & Bennett, 2015;O'Doherty et al, 2013).…”

Austrian male patients’ gender role conflict is associated with their wish for interpersonal violence to be addressed during patient-physician conversations: a questionnaire study

“…Experiences of violence are an important health issue that should be addressed in healthcare [3,30,69]. In the current study, half of the male patients had experienced at least one form of interpersonal violence.…”

“…Physical and psychological violence were the most frequent forms of violence reported by men, comparable to results from other studies (e.g., [ 7 ]). Because the experience of interpersonal violence often leads to negative physical or mental health consequences [ 2 , 3 ], and because of the high prevalence rates of affected men, interpersonal violence should be an important issue in medical healthcare (e.g., [ 30 ]).…”

“…Because of the many barriers faced during the appraisal or help-seeking interval, men may delay or avoid help-seeking altogether for interpersonal violence [ 14 , 15 ]. This avoidance or delay of help-seeking can have negative consequences, because interpersonal violence is a relevant health problem that needs to be addressed (e.g., [ 30 ]). Physicians may help some men shorten or omit those intervals by routinely asking all patients about potential experiences of interpersonal violence (irrespective of patients’ reasons for presentation).…”

El ciclo de la violencia contra las mujeres en las canciones de música popular en España

“…En la mayor parte de los casos, la violencia contra las mujeres sigue un patrón definido conocido como ciclo de la violencia. En algunos estudios se establecen tres fases (fase de tensión, fase de agresión y fase de calma y conciliación, también conocida como "luna de miel") y en otros se definen cuatro fases (fase de acumulación de tensión, fase de explosión violenta, fase de alejamiento/separación temporal y fase de remisión) (Walker 1979;Collett y Bennett 2015). Jáuregui (2006) afirma que, a menos que el ciclo sea interrumpido, la escalada de violencia suele ser la siguiente: "violencia psicológica, violencia verbal, violencia física o agresión física y/o sexual, homicidio y/o suicidio".…”