Intimate partner violence against adult women and its association with major depressive disorder, depressive symptoms and postpartum depression: systematic review and meta-analysis

By H. Beydoun, M. Beydoun, J. Kaufman, B. Lo, A. Zonderman. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2012

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To date, few systematic reviews of observational studies have been conducted to comprehensively evaluate the co-morbidity of IPV and specific depression outcomes in women. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, the authors summarized the extant literature and estimated the magnitude of the association between IPV and key depressive outcomes (elevated depressive symptoms, diagnosed major depressive disorder and postpartum depression). PubMed (January 1, 1980–Decemer 31, 2010) searches of English-language observational studies were conducted. Most of the selected 37 studies had cross-sectional population-based designs, focused on elevated depressive symptoms and were conducted in the United States. Most studies suggested moderate or strong positive associations between IPV and depression. Our meta-analysis suggested two to three-fold increased risk of major depressive disorder and 1.5 to 2-fold increased risk of elevated depressive symptoms and postpartum depression among women exposed to intimate partner violence relative to non-exposed women. A sizable proportion (9%–28%) of major depressive disorder, elevated depressive symptoms, and postpartum depression can be attributed to lifetime exposure to IPV. In an effort to reduce the burden of depression, continued research is recommended for evaluating IPV preventive strategies.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Magnitude and risk factors for postpartum symptoms: a literature review. (2015, background): “About half of military wives (Schachman and Lindsey, 2013), one-fourth of epilepsy patients (Galanti et al., 2009) and 9.0% of women with intimate partner violence (Beydoun et al., 2012) have postpartum depression.”
Intimate Partner Violence and Incident Depressive Symptoms and Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies (2013, result): “A recent metaanalysis of three longitudinal studies provides support for this direction of association with depression, but this analysis pooled depressive disorders, depressive symptoms, and postpartum depression; included only a subset of known studies; and examined only one direction of associati”
Mental Health Factors and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization: A Meta-Analysis (2017, methodology): “…and borderline PD to IPV perpetration (Goldenson, Geffner, Foster, & Clipson, 2007; Porcerelli, Cogan, & Hibbard, 2004; Shorey et al., 2012a, 2012b; Smith et al., 2015) and victimization (Beydoun et al., 2012; Ferrari et al., 2016; Lagdon et al., 2014; Maneta et al., 2013; Shorey et al., 2012a).”