Intimate Partner Violence and Hurricane Katrina: Predictors and Associated Mental Health Outcomes

This study sought to establish the prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in the 6 months before and after Hurricane Katrina. Participants were 445 married or cohabiting persons who were living in the 23 southernmost counties of Mississippi at the time of Hurrican...

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Veröffentlicht in:Violence and victims Jg. 25; H. 5; S. 588 - 603
Hauptverfasser: Schumacher, Julie A., Coffey, Scott F., Norris, Fran H., Tracy, Melissa, Clements, Kahni, Galea, Sandro
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Springer Publishing Company 01.01.2010
Schlagworte:
Adult
Attainment
Battered Women - statistics & numerical data
Behavioral Sciences
Cohabitation
Comorbidity
Confidence intervals
Counseling
Crime Victims - statistics & numerical data
Cyclonic Storms
Depression - epidemiology
Disasters
Domestic violence
Educational attainment
Emotional abuse
Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data
Female
Floods
Health status
Humans
Hurricanes
Interpersonal Relations
Interviews
Intimate partner violence
Male
Marital Status
Marriage and Family Counselling
Mens health
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental health
Methodology (Data Collection)
Middle Aged
Mississippi - epidemiology
Natural Disasters
Partner Abuse
Policy, Social Justice, and Human Rights
Post traumatic stress disorder
Prevalence
Psychology
Public health
Risk Factors
Social and Personality Psychology
Social Work
Spouse Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Storm damage
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Victimization
Victims
Women
Young Adult
Mississippi
United States > US
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
DISASTERS
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
DEPRESSION PARTNER VIOLENCE AND HURRICANE KATRINA
ISSN:0886-6708, 1945-7073, 0886-6708
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Zusammenfassung:This study sought to establish the prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in the 6 months before and after Hurricane Katrina. Participants were 445 married or cohabiting persons who were living in the 23 southernmost counties of Mississippi at the time of Hurricane Katrina. Data for this study were collected as part of a larger, population-based, representative study. The percentage of women reporting psychological victimization increased from 33.6% prior to Hurricane Katrina to 45.2% following Hurricane Katrina (p < .001). The percentage of men reporting psychological victimization increased from 36.7% to 43.1% (p = .01). Reports of physical victimization increased from 4.2% to 8.3% for women (p = .01) but were unchanged for men. Significant predictors of post-Katrina victimization included pre-Katrina victimization, age, educational attainment, marital status, and hurricane-related stressors. Reports of IPV were associated with greater risk of post-Katrina depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Data from the first population-based study to document IPV following a large-scale natural disaster suggest that IPV may be an important but often overlooked public health concern following disasters.
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ISSN:0886-6708
1945-7073
0886-6708
DOI:10.1891/0886-6708.25.5.588