Intimate partner violence.

By Megan H. Bair-Merritt. Pediatrics in review, 2010

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1. Megan H. Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE* 1. *Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Director, Primary Care Fellowship Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Describe the prevalence of intimate partner violence and childhood exposure to intimate partner violence. 2. Identify risk factors associated with intimate partner violence. 3. Explain the relationship of child maltreatment in the setting of intimate partner violence. 4. Recognize the impact of intimate partner violence exposure on children's social-emotional and physical health and health-care use. 5. Discuss strategies for screening and responding to intimate partner violence in the pediatric setting. You are seeing a healthy 4-month-old infant for a health supervision visit. As part of a routine social history, you inquire about intimate partner violence (IPV). The infant's mother discloses that her partner frequently yells at her, pushes her, and makes her feel afraid. On additional questioning, she describes the infant as “fussy.” The baby's physical examination findings are unremarkable, but you note that he missed his 2-month visit and is behind on his immunizations. How do you proceed? Family violence and domestic violence often are used synonymously and refer to violence occurring between any family member dyad, including parent-child, intimate partner-intimate partner, or sibling-sibling. IPV refers specifically to violence perpetrated between romantic partners and has been defined by the Family Violence Prevention Fund as “a pattern of purposeful coercive behaviors that may include inflicted physical injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive social isolation, stalking, deprivation, intimidation and threats. These behaviors are perpetrated by someone who is, was, or wishes to be involved in an intimate or dating relationship with an adult or adolescent victim and are aimed at establishing control of one partner over the other.” (1) Over the course of a lifetime, between one fourth …

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Testing the cycle of violence hypothesis: child abuse and adolescent dating violence as predictors of intimate partner violence in young adulthood (2011, background): “While males may be the victims of IPV, 85% of violent crimes committed by partners are against women (Rennison & Welchans, 2000).”
Intimate Partner Violence, Psychological Distress, and Suicidality: A Path Model Using Data from African American Women Seeking Care in an Urban Emergency Department (2008, background): “Although women from all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic levels experience IPV, women who are African American, young, poor, divorced or separated, and residing in urban areas are the most frequent victims (Office of Justice Programs 1998; Rennison and Welchans 2000; Wenzel et al. 2006; West 200”
The Intergenerational Transmission of Intimate Partner Violence: Differentiating Correlates in a Random Community Sample (2012, methodology): “The sample represented 119 of the 254 counties in Texas or 53 % of the counties in the state (Kercher et al. 2008).”
Sexual victimization in childhood and the propensity for juvenile delinquency and adult criminal behavior: A systematic review (2011, background): “Focusing more specifically on child sexual abuse (CSA), it is established in the literature that individuals who have been sexually molested as children have an increased likelihood of being a perpetrator of adult intimate partner violence (Bassuck et al., 2006; Widom, 1989).”
Intimate partner violence against African American women: An examination of the socio-cultural context (2009, result): “Unlike results from the NVAWS, findings indicated that, between 1993 and 1998, African American women experienced IPV at a rate (11.1 per 1000 persons) that was approximately 35% higher than Caucasian women (8.2 per 1000 persons), a statistically significant difference (Rennison & Welchans, 2000).”
From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men's Partner-Directed Violence (2009, background): “Male sexual jealousy is one of the most frequently cited causes of men’s partner-directed violence, both physical and sexual (e.g., Buss, 2000; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Daly et al., 1982; Dobash & Dobash, 1979; Dutton, 1998; Frieze, 1983; Gage & Hutchinson, 2006; Russell, 1982; Walker, 1979).”