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Brazilian policy responses to violence against women: government strategy and the help-seeking behaviors of women who experience violence. [PDF]

, 2012
Over the past three decades, international covenants have been signed and countries have implemented strategies and legislation to address violence against women.
Kiss, Ligia, Watts, Charlotte, Zimmerman, Cathy, Heise, Lori, Schraiber, Lilia Blima, d'Oliveira, Ana Flavia Lucas   +5 more
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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
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A discourse analysis of young adults' discussions of intimate partner violence in dating relationships [PDF]

, 2013
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has focused predominantly on the married or cohabiting adult population in South Africa;; however, IPV also occurs in young adults' dating relationships.
Barkhuizen, Lauren Ruth
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Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence and Intimate Partner Acceptance-Rejection among Cape Verdean students living in Portugal

Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
This research sought to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence, characterize attitudes toward violence, analyse relations between perceptions of intimate partner acceptance-rejection and practices of violence and examine relations between ...
Sofia Neves, Márcia Machado, Francisco Machado, Fábia Pinheiro   +3 more
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Intimate partner violence among postpartum women at a teaching hospital in Nigeria’s Federal Capital City: pattern and materno-fetal outcomes

Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health, 2020
Background: Intimate partner violence is an important public health and human rights issue. Previous studies have considered intimate partner violence in pregnancy mainly among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics thereby missing out a few who may ...
Godwin O. Akaba, Habiba I. Abdullahi
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Children’s and adolescents’ perspectives on routine inquiry about violence in specialised outpatient care

BMC Research Notes
Objective This study explores children’s and adolescents’ experiences and opinions of routine inquiries about violence within specialised outpatient care. Utilising a mixed method with a convergent parallel design, the research combines quantitative data
Mari Brännvall, Karin Örmon, Solveig Lövestad   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conserved binding mode but diverse interfaces of MreC‐PBP2 interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The crystal structure of abMreC reveals a conserved two β‐barrel architecture and provides structural insights into its role within the bacterial elongasome. The abMreC–abPBP2 complex model identifies the molecular basis of MreC‐mediated PBP2 recognition, contributing to the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis.
Hyunseok Jang, Hyo Been Jin, Chang Min Kim, So Yeon Lee, Hyun Ho Park   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The questions on violence (FOV) tool for interpersonal violence inquiry in Swedish healthcare settings – evaluation of content validity, face validity and test-retest reliability

BMC Health Services Research
Background Previous research indicates that routine inquiry or screening conducted by healthcare providers may significantly increase the identification of interpersonal violence.
Solveig Lövestad, Karin Sjöström, Josefin Björk, Karin Örmon   +3 more
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Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and Maternal Morbidity in South Ethiopia: A Cohort Study

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023
Mesfin Mamo Utaile,1,2 Ahmed Ali Ahmed,2 Alemayehu Worku Yalew2 1Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia; 2Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, College of ...
Utaile MM, Ahmed AA, Yalew AW
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Intimate partner violence against women in eastern Uganda: implications for HIV prevention

BMC Public Health, 2006
Background We were interested in finding out if the very low antenatal VCT acceptance rate reported in Mbale Hospital was linked to intimate partner violence against women. We therefore set out to i) determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence,
Tylleskar Thorkild, Tumwine James K, Karamagi Charles AS, Heggenhougen Kristian   +3 more
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