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Ending violence against women: Help-seeking behaviour of women exposed to intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionIntimate partner violence is a serious public health problem that transcends cultural boundaries in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies have reported that violence characteristics and perception are strong predictors of help-seeking among women.
Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Abdul Cadri, Tarif Salihu, Francis Arthur-Holmes, Sarah Tara Sam, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Screening for Intimate Partner Violence [PDF]

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2016
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious concern for women that is associated with significant adverse health effects. Routine screening for IPV is recommended, but there are many barriers to screening that have been identified by providers, including discomfort, lack of training, and not knowing how to respond to a positive screen.
Paterno, Mary T, Draughon, Jessica E
openaire   +4 more sources

Intimate Partner Violence and Injury Prediction From Radiology Reports [PDF]

, 2020
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an urgent, prevalent, and under-detected public health issue. We present machine learning models to assess patients for IPV and injury. We train the predictive algorithms on radiology reports with 1) IPV labels based on entry to a violence prevention program and 2) injury labels provided by emergency radiology ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Men's Behaviour Change Program: Participants' and Facilitators' Perceptions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 412-422, December 2022., 2022
Men's behaviour change programs (MBCPs) are group programs for men using family violence. This preliminary evaluation examines participants' and facilitators' perceptions of a redeveloped MBCP. Participants reported significant improvements in their ability to manage stress, understand the impact of their use of violence, and apply skills to repair the
Amanda O'Connor, Anastasia Panayiotidis, Andrew Bickerdike, Sandra Opoku, Helen Skouteris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19-induced surge in the severity of gender-based violence might increase the risk for acquired brain injuries

SAGE Open Medicine, 2021
While initial reports have emphasized a global rise in the frequency of intimate partner violence following COVID-19, emerging data are now showing a concerning surge in the severity of COVID-19-induced physical intimate partner violence. One of the most
Ghazala T Saleem, Jessica M Fitzpatrick, Mohammad N Haider, Eve M Valera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

AIR-JPMC@SMM4H'22: Classifying Self-Reported Intimate Partner Violence in Tweets with Multiple BERT-based Models [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
This paper presents our submission for the SMM4H 2022-Shared Task on the classification of self-reported intimate partner violence on Twitter (in English). The goal of this task was to accurately determine if the contents of a given tweet demonstrated someone reporting their own experience with intimate partner violence.
arxiv  

Men Working with Men in Intensive Family Services: Reflections on Violence, Trauma Lifeworlds, and Organic Interventions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 442-461, December 2022., 2022
Intimate partner violence is a major problem in Australia, impacting many families that are on the cusp of disruption and intervention by the child protection system. Using an innovative method of inquiry, the article explores the role of dedicated men's workers in a South Australian non‐government organisation's intensive family service that works ...
Alex Haines, Stuart Andary, Jackie Amos, Jonathon Louth, Amalie Mannik, Ruth Jacobs, Paul Best, Paul Calio, Travis Petrovic, Ryan Scott, Alex Vlahos   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intimate partner violence against HIV-positive Cameroonian women: Prevalence, associated factors and relationship with antiretroviral therapy discontinuity—results from the ANRS-12288 EVOLCam survey

Women's Health, 2019
Background: Intimate partner violence in its various forms increases HIV exposure in female victims and potentially jeopardizes the HIV treatment cascade, for instance, by impeding engagement in and adherence to care.
Marion Fiorentino, Luis Sagaon-Teyssier, Khadim Ndiaye, Marie Suzan-Monti, Marie-Thérèse Mengue, Laurent Vidal, Christopher Kuaban, Laura March, Christian Laurent, Bruno Spire, Sylvie Boyer,   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the determinants and outcomes of intimate partner violence during pregnancy for Guyanese women: Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional household survey

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. To determine predictors associated with physical violence during pregnancy, and to determine the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy and women’s health and suicide ideation in Guyana. Methods.
Lior Miller, Manuel Contreras-Urbina
doaj   +1 more source

Intimate partner violence and HIV testing during antenatal care: A latent class analysis to identify risk factors for HIV infection in mothers and their children in the United Republic of Tanzania.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Intimate partner violence has adverse effects on mother's overall health and prevention of mother to child HIV transmission. To identify and examine subgroups of mothers experiencing intimate partner violence and the likelihood of HIV testing during ...
Francisco A Montiel Ishino, Claire Rowan, Joel Seme Ambikile, Donaldson F Conserve, Diana Lopez, Melanie Sabado-Liwag, Faustine Williams   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources