Female victims of intimate partner physical domestic violence (IPP-DV), California 1998
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Background
Domestic violence (DV) can be defined broadly as economic control and physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse used by adults or adolescents against their current or former intimate partners.1 In the United States, it is estimated that 2 million to 3 million women (or 1.9% to 2.8% of all women) are assaulted by male partners each year, and between 21% to 34% of all women will be physically assaulted by an intimate partner at some time during their adulthood.2 DV leads to
The California women’s health survey, 1998
The California Women’s Health Survey (CWHS) is a survey of randomly selected adult (aged ≥18) women in California, administered by the Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) unit of the Cancer Surveillance Section of the California Department of Health Services (CDHS).16 The CWHS is led by a CDHS coordinating committee with participation of other state agencies and other public and private institutions. Approximately 4000 surveys are administered annually in English or Spanish. For
IPP-DV prevalence
Ethnic and age group breakdowns are summarized in Table 1. The data indicate that the white group statistically had a lower prevalence data point than the African-American and Hispanic/Latina groups. A significant trend was observed for decreasing IPP-DV prevalence with increasing age (p<0.001, Cochran-Armitage trend test); that is, the older the victims are, the less IPP-DV they reported in the past 12 months.
Demographics and health issues
Results of the variable OR analyses (reduced model), adjusted for age and
Conclusions
Our data indicate that in 1998, 6.0% of California women were victims of IPP-DV. The California IPP-DV statewide estimate is in agreement with results of the 1995 National Alcohol Survey of married or cohabiting couples (5.2% to 13.6%),20 with the 1994 New York study (5.6%),14 and with a 1995 Georgia study (6.0%).15 However, the California IPP-DV rate is higher than recent comparable national data, and it is also higher than that of the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households (2.9%).21
Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the excellent survey work of Bonnie Davis, PhD, Marta Induni, and the interviewers of the CATI Unit of the Cancer Surveillance Section, California Department of Health Services. We also thank Nikki Baumrind, PhD, for her dedication to the California Women’s Health Survey.
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