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Acute Injury Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence Victims
- Source :
- Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 8:281-289
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- Although millions of women receive injuries from intimate partner violence (IPV) each year in the United States alone, there has been only limited research of acute injury patterns and the types, locations, and mechanisms of IPV injuries. The mechanism of being punched to the face with a fist resulting in blunt trauma—related injuries is most commonly reported. Strangulation, especially manual strangulation, is a frequently cited mechanism of injury; however, less is known about the types of injuries that result from strangulation. In general, clinicians should assess all patients who present for treatment of head, neck, and face injuries for IPV. There is little consistency between and much inaccuracy with medical terms used to describe types of injuries. To increase the accuracy and generalizability of findings from studies of acute IPV injuries, researchers need to use more standardized medical forensic terminology.
- Subjects :
- Male
Health (social science)
Poison control
Risk Assessment
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Neck Injuries
Blunt
Risk Factors
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Facial Injuries
Physical Examination
Applied Psychology
business.industry
Battered Women
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Human factors and ergonomics
medicine.disease
United States
Sexual Partners
Acute Disease
Spouse Abuse
Wounds and Injuries
Domestic violence
Female
Medical emergency
0509 other social sciences
Risk assessment
business
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15528324 and 15248380
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2f05fc25c0b84307507fd8f143996acb
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838007303504