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Low health-related quality of life among abused women

Alsaker, Kjersti, Moen, Bente E., Nortvedt, Monica W., Baste, Valborg·2006·Quality of Life Research
DOI 10.1007/s11136-006-0046-4
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In a cross-sectional study, we sent a self-administered questionnaire to all the women's shelters in Norway to describe health-related quality of life among women who had experienced violence from an intimate partner. Every woman who could understand Norwegian and was staying at a women's shelter in Norway for more than 1 week from October 2002 to May 2003 was asked to participate. We described violence by intimate partners by using the Severity of Violence against Women Scale and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Index. We used the SF-36 Health Survey to measure health-related quality of life. These women experienced a multitude of threats and actual physical and psychological violence during their partnership. Their health-related quality of life was low and significantly (p<0.001) below the norm for the female population of Norway in all dimensions. The SF-36 mental health dimension was 2.5 standard deviations below the norm. Women at women's shelters in Norway who had experienced domestic violence had very low and clinically significantly reduced health-related quality of life scores. Health care workers must give priority to developing intervention plans for victims of violence from intimate partners.

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  • Intimate partner violence is associated with poor functional health in women.

    “IPV was also found to be associated with poor physical health including poor functional health, somatic disorders, chronic disorders and chronic pain, gynaecological problems, and increased risk of STIs.”

    From Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Review of the Literature (2013) · cites this paper as [63]

  • A consistent finding of the reviewed studies is that women who had experienced intimate partner violence (physical, sexual, or psychological) had lower mental health and social functioning scores than women who had not experienced intimate partner violence.

    “A consistent finding of all these studies is that women who had experienced IPV (physical, sexual, or psychological) had lower mental health and social functioning scores than women who had not experienced IPV.”

    From Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Review of the Literature (2013) · cites this paper as [63]

  • For all but two of the reviewed studies, women with a history of intimate partner violence had significantly lower levels of physical functioning than either nonabused women within the same study or the female national norm value for health function scores.

    “For all but two of the reviewed studies, women with a history of IPV had significantly lower levels of physical functioning than either nonabused women within the same study, or the female national norm value for health function scores.”

    From Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Review of the Literature (2013) · cites this paper as [63]

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Authors
Alsaker, K., Moen, B. E., Nortvedt, M. W., & Baste, V.
Affiliations
Høgskolen i Bergen (NO)
Corresponding author
Alsaker, Kjersti
ORCID
Venue
Quality of Life Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2006-08
Volume
15
Issue
6
Pages
959-965
ISSN
  • 0962-9343 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2649
DOI
10.1007/s11136-006-0046-4
OpenAlex
W2002378080
Cited by
52
References
32
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
FWCI
2.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Quality of Life Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Universitetet i Bergen
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Elder Abuse and Neglect
Keywords
health-related quality of life, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, women's shelters, violence against women, psychological maltreatment, physical violence, mental health, victims of violence, intervention plan
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Norway, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Spouse Abuse, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Stress, Psychological, Group Homes, Women's Health, Battered Women

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