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Showing result 16 - 20 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words intimate relationship.

2. 16. Child Psychiatric Patients Affected by Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse – Disclosure, Prevalence and Consequences

   Author : Ole Hultmann; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Våld i familjen; Barn som bevittnar våld;

   Abstract : The overall aims of this thesis were (1) to document the prevalence of child abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) among child and adolescent mental health care (CAM) patients, (2) to study the clinicians’ attitudes towards asking routinely about IPV, (3) to compare psychiatric symptoms between patients with (a) experience of family violence (child abuse and/or exposure to IPV) (b) experience of violence outside the family and (c) patients with no such experiences, and (4) compare psychiatric symptoms between patients who had both witnessed IPV and been subjected to child abuse with those either subjected to child abuse or those who had witnessed IPV, but not both. An additional aim in study IV was to explore the importance of concordance/discordance between children’s and parents’ reports of occurrence of IPV. READ MORE

4. 17. Toward an integrated approach in research on interpersonal violence : Conceptual and methodological challenges

   Author : Johanna Simmons; Katarina Swahnberg; Barbro Wijma; Staffan Janson; Östergötlands Läns Landsting; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Violence; Abuse; intimate partner violence; Poly-victimization; Re-victimization;

   Abstract : Background: There is a growing understanding that different kinds of interpersonal violence are interrelated. Many victims report experiences of cumulative violence, i.e. READ MORE

5. 18. Women as victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Maputo City, Mozambique : occurence, nature and effects

   Author : António Eugénio Zacarias; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a widespread bad behavior, and its effects on women’s lives encompass injuries, mental ill-health, decreased intimacy, and a financial burden. Growing evidence indicates that women also abuse their intimate male partners. READ MORE

6. 19. Intimate partner violence against women : foundation for prevention and for an educational programme for new couples in an Iranian city

   Author : Behrooz Hamzeh; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Primary prevention; premarital educational programmes; victim blaming;

   Abstract : Understanding how community members conceive the occurrence and prevention of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) can help set the stage for contextrelevant and sustainable preventive interventions, including educational programmes. The studies forming this thesis are part of such an assessment and concern community members in the city of Kermashah (Iran). READ MORE

7. 20. Attitudes towards and exposure to intimate partner violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa : contextual effects, neighbourhood variations and individual risk factors

   Author : Abdulrahman Olalekan Uthman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Aims: We described and compared attitudes toward intimate partner violence and associated socio-demographic, structural, and attitudinal factors among men and women from subSaharan Africa (SSA) (Study I) and explored plausible gender differences to examine societal level factors associated with it (Study II). We also examined if there are any evidence for area- and societal-level social inequalities on women’ attitudes toward IPVAW to further understand the pathway by which the broader social environment could influence the individual attitude (Study III). READ MORE