Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 94-100 , March 2009

Intimate Partner Violence, Health Status, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities

Received 27 June 2008 ,Revised 27 October 2008 ,Accepted 30 October 2008.

References 

  1. Andrews AB, Veronen LJ. Sexual assault and people with disabilities. Special issue: Sexuality and disabilities: A guide for human service practitioners. Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality. 1993;8:137–159
  2. Blanchard J, Hosek S. Financing health care for women with disabilities. Pittsburgh, PA: Rand Corporation; 2003;
  3. Brownridge DA. Partner violence against women with disabilities: Prevalence, risk, and explanations. Violence Against Women. 2006;12:805
  4. Campbell J, Jones A, Dienemann J, Kub J, Schollenberger J, O'Campo P, et al. Intimate partner violence and physical health consequences. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2002;162:1157–1163
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2000, November). Disability and secondary conditions. In Healthy people 2010. Available: http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/HTML/Volume1/06Disability.htm. Accessed April 15, 2008.
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2006). Understanding intimate partner violence: Fact sheet. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/ipv_factsheet.pdf. Accessed April 15, 2008.
  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2007, May 3). 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Summary data quality report. Available: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Data/Brfss/2006SummaryDataQualityReport.pdf. Accessed April 15, 2008.
  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2008, February 8). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 57, 113–117. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5705a1.htm. Accessed April 10, 2008.
  9. Collins, K.S., Schoen, C., Joseph, S., Duchon, L., Simantov, E., & Yellowitz, M. (1999, May). Health concerns across a woman's lifespan: The Commonwealth Fund 1998 Survey of Women's Health. Available: http://www.cmwf.org/usr_doc/Healthconcerns__surveyreport.pdf. Accessed April 16, 2008.
  10. Cunradi CB, Caetano R, Clark C, Schafer J. Neighborhood poverty as a predictor of intimate partner violence among white, black, and Hispanic couples in the United States at a multilevel analysis. Annals of Epidemiology. 2000;10:297–308
  11. Forte T, Cohen MM, DuMont J, Hyman I, Romans S. Psychological and physical sequelae of intimate partner violence among women with limitations in their activities of daily living. Archives of Women's Mental Health. 2005;8:248–256
  12. Iezonni L, O'Day B. More than ramps: Improving health care quality for people with disabilities. New York: Oxford University Press; 2006;
  13. Jones AS, Dienemann J, Schollenberger J, Kub J, O'Campo P, Gielen AC, et al. Long-term care costs of intimate partner violence in a sample of female HMO enrollees. Women's Health Issues. 2006;16:252–261
  14. Lipsky S, Caetano R. Impact of intimate partner violence on unmet need for mental health care: Results from the NSDUH. Psychiatric Services. 2007;58:822–829
  15. Martin SL, Ray N, Sotres-Alvarez D, Kupper LL, Moracco KE, Dickens PA, et al. Physical and sexual assault of women with disabilities. Violence Against Women. 2006;12:823
  16. Martin SL, Rentz ED, Chan RL, Givens J, Sanford CP, Kupper LL, et al. Physical and sexual violence among North Carolina women. Women's Health Issues. 2008;18:130–140
  17. McFarlane, J., Hughes, R.B., Nosek, M.A., Groff, J.Y., Swedland, N., & Mullen, P.D. (20011). Abuse Assessment Screen-Disability (AAS-D): Measuring frequency, type, and perpetrator of abuse toward women with physical disabilities. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 10, 861–866.
  18. Nosek MA, Howland CA, Young ME. Abuse of women with disabilities: Policy implications. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 1997;8:157–176
  19. Nosek MA, Hughes RB, Taylor HB, Taylor P. Disability, psychosocial, and demographic characteristics of abuse women with physical disabilities. Violence Against Women. 2006;12:838–850
  20. Plichta SB. Intimate Partner violence and physical health consequences: Policy and Practice implications. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2004;19:1296
  21. Rennison, C.M., & Welchans, S. (2000, May). Intimate partner violence. Bureau of Justice Statistics special report. Available: http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/∼kwaits/dv_statistics.pdf. Accessed April 10, 2008.
  22. Rivara FP, Anderson ML, Fishman P, Bonomi AE, Reid RJ, Carrell D, et al. Healthcare utilization and costs for women with a history of intimate partner violence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;32:89–96
  23. Smith D. Disability, gender and intimate partner violence: Relationships from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Sexuality and Disability. 2007;26(1):
  24. Vest JR, Catlin TK, Chen JJ, Brownson RC. Multistate analysis of factors associated with intimate partner violence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2003;22:156–164
  25. Womendez C, Schneiderman K. Escaping from abuse: Unique issues for women with disabilities. Sexuality and Disability. 1991;9:273–280
  26. Young ME, Nosek MA, Howland CA, Chanpong G, Rintala DH. Prevalence of abuse of women with physical disabilities. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 1997;78:S34–S38

PII: S1049-3867(08)00178-3

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.10.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 94-100 , March 2009

Article Tools