Intimate Partner Violence and Women with Disabilities: The Relationship Between Experience of Violence, Social Support and Mental Health 公开

Baack, Brittney Nicole (2011)

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Intimate Partner Violence and Women with Disabilities:
The Relationship Between Experience of Violence, Social Support and Mental Health
By Brittney N. Baack
Scholarship suggests that women with disabilities experience intimate partner violence at rates comparable to, if not greater than, their non-disabled counterparts. However, few studies have examined this phenomenon, and no research to date has investigated the
relationship between experience of intimate partner violence, social support, and mental health outcomes among women with disabilities.The purpose of this research was to describe the prevalence of intimate partner violence among women with disabilities and
compare that to the prevalence among women without disabilities, as well as to examine the association between experience of intimate partner violence and psychological distress among women with disabilities and the moderating role of social support on this
relationship. A secondary analysis of a subset of the 2007 BRFSS data was conducted. The responses of 5,188 women who completed both the intimate partner violence and mental health modules were analyzed using bivariate and logistic regression analyses. Of the respondents included in this analysis, 954 women reported some form of disability. The results of this study indicate that women with disabilities are significantly more likely to experience intimate partner violence than their non-disabled counterparts (36.4%
vs. 20.3%, respectively). Furthermore, women with disabilities who have experienced intimate partner violence are approximately 2.3 times more likely to suffer from serious psychological distress than those who have not experienced intimate partner violence. Although social support did not moderate this relationship, it was found to have a mediating effect. Because women with disabilities who experience partner abuse are increasingly likely to have poorer mental health outcomes, additional public health resources are needed to address mental health issues within this population, and efforts must be made to strengthen the social support networks that are so vital to their psychological well being.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ..........................................1
Literature Review................................... 8
Methods.............................................. 29
Results ............................................... 37
Discussion ........................................... 43
References .......................................... 51



TABLES

Table 1: Characteristics of the Sample ..............................................38
Table 2: Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence by Disability Status...... 39
Table 3: Logistic Regression Analysis of Psychological Distress Among

Women with Disabilities ...................................................................41
Table 4: Analysis of Social Support as a Moderator of Intimate Partner

Violence ......................................................................................42



FIGURES

Figure 1.Stress-Buffering Model of Social Support ................................ 6

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