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{"title":"Alcohol and drowning in Australia.","authors":"Tim R Driscoll,&nbsp;James E Harrison,&nbsp;Malinda Steenkamp","doi":"10.1080/156609704/233/289661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/156609704/233/289661","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To examine the contribution of alcohol to drowning deaths in Australia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Drowning deaths that occurred in Australia (excluding Queensland) from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 were identified using the National Coroners Information System (NCIS). The current analysis was based on those deaths for which the Coronial process was completed by March 2003 ('Closed' cases). Comparison was made with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national deaths data and with currently used values of attributable fractions for alcohol and drowning in Australia (these values are based on USA data on drownings from 1980 to 1984).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>289 drowning deaths were identified, 5% less than comparable ABS data. Of these deaths, 240 were 'Closed' cases, and valid blood alcohol measurements were available for 137 (58%) of these. Alcohol appeared to contribute to approximately 19% of these fatal drowning incidents (25% for recreational aquatic activity; 16% for incidental falls into water; 12% for drowning due to suicide). Using > or = 0.10 g/100 ml as the cut-off, the estimated all-ages proportions of unintentional drowning attributed to alcohol was 17% in the current study, compared to the 34% currently used for Australia based on data from North America.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and implications: </strong>A high level of alcohol appears to be present less frequently among recent drowning deaths in Australia than has been assumed to be the case to date. Nevertheless, many drowning victims have high levels of blood alcohol, and public health efforts to minimize the use of alcohol in association with activity on or near water should be continued. Despite some deficiencies, the NCIS appears to be a very useful source of information on public health issues, and to provide a better basis for assessing and monitoring alcohol-related drowning deaths in Australia than the published attributable fractions used to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 3","pages":"175-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/156609704/233/289661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25003012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Motorcycle ownership and injury in China.","authors":"Junhua Zhang,&nbsp;Robyn Norton,&nbsp;K C Tang,&nbsp;Sing Kai Lo,&nbsp;Zhuo Jiatong,&nbsp;Geng Wenkui","doi":"10.1080/156609704/233/289643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/156609704/233/289643","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>China has made tremendous progress in its economic development in the past two decades. Accompanying this economic development has been an evident shift in the modes of transport, from walking and cycling to the use of motorcycles and, increasingly, four-wheel vehicles. Such changes are likely to have also produced changes in the patterns and numbers of road traffic injuries, including increases in motorcycle injuries. However, such changes have not been well documented. The work described in this paper sought, therefore, to document the changes in motorcycle ownership, motorcyclist mortality and injury rates in China since 1987.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>National traffic ownership and injury data from 1987 to 2001 were obtained from the National Bureau for Traffic Administration. Additionally, traffic ownership and injury records from 1997 to 2001 were collected from local police offices from 20 counties in Guangxi Region. Population data were obtained from the national and county statistics bureaus. Motorcycle ownership, fatality and injury trends over time were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nationally, motorcycles accounted for 23.4% of all registered motor vehicles in 1987, increasing to 63.2% in 2001. Motorcyclist fatalities and injuries increased 5.5-fold and 9.3-fold, respectively, between 1987 and 2001. In 1987, 7.5% of all traffic fatalities and 8.8% of all traffic injuries were sustained by motorcyclists, with the corresponding proportions increasing to 18.9% and 22.8%, respectively, in 2001. The changing proportions of both traffic fatalities and injuries sustained by motorcyclists were positively correlated with the change in the proportion of motorcycles among all motor vehicles. In the 20 counties in Guangxi, motorcyclist fatality and injury rates also increased between 1997 and 2001. Moreover, these rates were considerably higher than the national rates.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Motorcyclist injury in China is a serious public health problem. Motorcyclist fatalities and injuries are likely to continue to increase unless appropriate intervention programmes are implemented.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 3","pages":"159-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/156609704/233/289643","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25002566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the burden of injuries: competing measures.","authors":"Delia Hendrie,&nbsp;Ted R Miller","doi":"10.1080/156609704/233/289689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/156609704/233/289689","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This paper compares the different types of injury burden measures in common use and examines criteria that may be useful to consider when selecting between alternative measures.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A review was conducted of relevant literature relating to burden of injury measures, important characteristics of data information systems and ethical frameworks for normative analysis in the health sector.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four broad types of burden of injury measures can be distinguished: mortality-related indices; morbidity-related indices; composite measures combining mortality and morbidity; and monetary costs. Each type of measure uses its own construct of injury burden. For example, mortality data defines the injury burden as comprising only fatalities whereas comprehensive costs attempt to capture the total wellbeing lost through injury. Different measures of the burden of injury present differential rankings of the causes and intent of injury, thus the question arises as to what criteria should be used in selecting the best measure. Each measure of the burden of injury has merits and limitations. In selecting between injury measures, consideration should be given to the nature of the policy question, the construct of injury burden that each measure assesses, the availability of data for the measure and its quality and the ethical values inherent in each measure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Measures of the burden of injury play a useful role in positioning injury as a major public health problem and in policy work relating to injury prevention and control. No single measure of the burden of injury is ideal and several measures can be used together if necessary to provide different perspectives on an injury problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 3","pages":"193-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/156609704/233/289689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25003014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The future of injury prevention in Asia and the Pacific.","authors":"Ian Scott","doi":"10.1080/156609704/233/289670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/156609704/233/289670","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>Unintentional injury is gaining attention in the broad Asia-Pacific region, primarily but not solely associated with rapid and disturbing growth in traffic injury.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This paper considers the nature and features of the injury problem and of current prevention efforts that are likely to be significant in injury prevention in the Asia Pacific region.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Prior to the first Asia-Pacific Injury Prevention Conference an e-mail discussion on the challenges and needs of injury prevention was conducted and a discussion paper circulated. The analysis was presented at the conference and the issues were taken up at a special regional network meeting, in the conference sessions and in informal discussion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The paper outlines the injury situation facing the broad Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries, outlining the size and nature of the problem. The challenges to prevention are lack of awareness and misconceptions about injury, weak intent and low levels of effort and a lack of capacity. The positive elements of work under way or in prospect are described.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The key tasks are to apply what is already known: to test and trial interventions in low- and middle-income countries; to identify the key causes of injury within the broad categories; and to foster and build partnerships.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 3","pages":"201-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/156609704/233/289670","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25003015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Next steps in cross-cultural research on intimate partner violence.","authors":"Joanne Klevens,&nbsp;Shrikant I Bangdiwala","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292379","url":null,"abstract":"of international concern and has been recognized as an important public health problem. A first step in approaching intimate partner violence (IPV) from a public health perspective is to systematically collect data on its magnitude, distribution, and consequences. This series of papers from WorldSAFE presented in this issue represent an enormous effort in achieving this first step. Multisite collaborative research is always a challenge, but more so when it involves various countries, multiple languages, and striking differences in culture, especially when dealing with sensitive issues such as IPV. WorldSAFE researchers should be commended for accomplishing these studies with such scientific rigor. The findings from this series of papers reiterate the importance of IPV in different countries. Between 11% and 43% of women interviewed in these sites report being victims of physical abuse during their lives (Hassan et al., this issue), a range similar to that reported worldwide. Similar percentages have also been exposed to psychological abuse as well (Ramiro et al., this issue). The WorldSAFE findings also begin to document the potential consequences and costs generated by IPV in these settings. IPV was significantly associated with mental health status and suicide attempts (Vizcarra et al., this issue). In addition, about 2.7% to 10% of women interviewed required medical care while 2.4% to 9.1% indicated lost productivity as a result of IPV (Hassan et al., this issue). The second step in approaching IPV from a public health perspective is understanding why it occurs. None of the risk factors explored in the WorldSAFE study were consistently associated with both physical and psychological abuse in the six settings, aside from material wealth as measured by an asset index (Bangdiwala et al., this issue). Cultural differences among the communities studied may account for the inconsistency in risk factors among the settings. Partner’s regular alcohol use was significantly associated with higher prevalence of IPV in almost all countries, but this also may be due to the cultural norms. For example, predominantly Muslim Egypt prohibits alcohol use. Whether alcohol use is causally related or a concurrent condition, needs to be established. Moreover, many of the factors explored in this initiative are difficult if not impossible to modify and not very useful for developing policies and programs to prevent IPV. Factors such as beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, and norms, which had been explored by the WorldSAFE investigators in focus groups that helped plan these studies were not quantified or included in these manuscripts given the difficulty in assessing such variables across cultures. The major known variables for perpetrator – the husband/partner, were not fully explored in these papers which concentrated on victimization. A next step for WorldSAFE investigators and others is to gain a better understanding of why IPV occurs. Research is needed on the causes","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"139-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24685181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global road safety.","authors":"Mark L Rosenberg,&nbsp;Margaret H McIntyre,&nbsp;Rennie Sloan","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292388","url":null,"abstract":"Many people know that malaria is a major global problem; one that takes 1.2 million lives per year. What most people do not realize, however, is that road traffic injuries (RTIs) cause just as many deaths each year. In fact, the RTI epidemic may be even more severe than malaria because for each fatality, there are at least 20 serious injuries, many producing life-long disabilities. But road traffic injuries have not yet captured the world’s attention, although almost everyone has been touched by road crashes. What explains this situation? Because RTIs are the collective responsibility of several sectors including transportation, law enforcement, public health and medical care, the problem rarely receives focused attention. In addition, road crashes occur one at a time, receiving little media attention, and there is a widespread tendency to blame the victims for not having been ‘careful.’ Often, these crashes are not reported, making data incomplete and inaccurate. Finally, there is a sense that RTIs are ‘accidents that just happen’ – a necessary consequence of progress and economic development – and nothing can be done to prevent them. This fatalism combined with the lack of focus, lack of data, and lack of attention effectively keep RTIs a hidden problem. One of the reasons that malaria is better known and supported today is because the World Health Organization (WHO) campaigned to make it a priority. Based on the Burden of Disease and further economic analysis from the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO made a strategic decision to focus on AIDS, TB, and malaria. This focus led to what became a ‘massive effort’ to fight these specific diseases and helped to develop support for the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. A similar ‘massive effort’ is needed to raise awareness for road safety because road traffic injuries are continuing to escalate and they still receive inadequate attention. Like AIDS, TB, and malaria, RTIs disproportionately affect developing nations, which account for approximately 90% of the global fatalities. Rates are decreasing in the developed and highly motorized nations, but they are rapidly increasing in the low and middle-income countries. In low and middle income countries, the roadways are not designed to handle motorized vehicles safely, making motor-vehicles up to 200 times more lethal than those in developed countries.","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"141-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24685182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The world studies of abuse in the family environment (WorldSAFE): a model of a multi-national study of family violence.","authors":"Laura S Sadowski,&nbsp;Wanda M Hunter,&nbsp;Shrikant I Bangdiwala,&nbsp;Sergio R Muñoz","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The World Studies of Abuse in the Family Environment (WorldSAFE) designed and implemented a study of family violence--intimate partner violence and child abuse and neglect--using standardized methods to cover over 12,000 women in eighteen communities within five lesser-developed countries. The rationale, process and methods for developing the population-based survey are described. Standardized methods included common training of investigators and field staff, sampling strategies, eligibility criteria, instruments, data collection methods, operational definitions, analysis strategies and data management. Special features of the WorldSAFE model are described--namely an ecological conceptual framework, an extensive and broad-based dissemination strategy, and community advisory boards. The World Studies of Abuse in the Family Environment (WorldSAFE) Steering Committee and principal investigators are as follows: Bhopal (India): Gandhi Medical College, S.S. Bhambal (MD) and A.K. Upadhyaya (MD). Chapel Hill (USA): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Shrikant Bangdiwala (PhD); Wanda Hunter (MPH); Desmond K. Runyan (MD, DrPH); and Laura S. Sadowski (MD, MPH). Chennai (India): Chennai Medical College, Saradha Suresh (MD) and Shuba Kumar (PhD). Delhi (India): All India Institute of Medical Sciences, R.M. Pandey (PhD). Ismailia (Egypt): Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine, Fatma Hassan (MD, PhD). Lucknow (India): King George's Medical College, M.K. Mitra (MD) and R.C. Ahuja (MD). Manila (the Philippines): University of the Philippines School of Medicine, Laurie Ramiro (PhD); M. Lourdes Amarillo (MS); Bernadette Madrid (MD). Nagpur (India): Government Medical College, Dipty Jain (MD). São Paulo (Brazil): Escola Paulista de Medicina, Isabel Bordin (MD) and Christine Silvestre De Paula. Temuco (Chile): Universidad de La Frontera, Sergio R. Muñoz (PhD) and Beatriz Vizcarra. Thiruvananthapuram (India) formerly Trivandrum: Government Medical College, M.K.C. Nair (MD) and Rajamohanan Pillai (MD). Vellore (India): Christian Medical College, L. Jeyaseelan (PhD) and Abraham Peedicayil (MD).</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24684113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Training and field methods in the WorldSAFE collaboration to study family violence.","authors":"Wanda M Hunter,&nbsp;Laura S Sadowski,&nbsp;Fatma Hassan,&nbsp;Dipty Jain,&nbsp;Cristiane S De Paula,&nbsp;Beatriz Vizcarra,&nbsp;Maria Lourdes Amarillo","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This paper describes the collaborative efforts of research teams from medical schools in India, Chile, Egypt, the Philippines, Brazil, and the United States to develop and implement a core protocol for household surveys on family violence and to conduct standardized training for field workers. Our objectives are to share successes and difficulties encountered in training and field work and to offer recommendations for similar undertakings.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study methods, developed by a multidisciplinary group of international investigators, were documented in a procedures manual. On-site standardized training was conducted and field workers were monitored for adherence to protocol. Special attention was given to safety and ethical issues.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, the training protocol and field methods were successful with relatively few problems encountered. Study participants were receptive to the interview and cooperated in safety procedures. The most common problem in the field was interruptions of the interview, mostly by children. Community advisory boards were actively involved in some of the sites, providing guidance on the safety and logistical aspects of the study, facilitating access to study communities, and providing community service information that could be shared with all study participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>WorldSAFE successes were attributed to rigorous standardized training and monitoring of field work; meticulous protocol implementation; unflagging attention to the ethical issues and to safeguarding study participants, field workers, and data; and openness and trust developed among the collaborators during the extended developmental phase.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"91-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24684114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intimate partner violence and the role of socioeconomic indicators in WorldSAFE communities in Chile, Egypt, India and the Philippines.","authors":"Shrikant I Bangdiwala,&nbsp;Laurie Ramiro,&nbsp;Laura S Sadowski,&nbsp;Isabel A S Bordin,&nbsp;Wanda Hunter,&nbsp;Viswanathan Shankar","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292324","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The literature documenting the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on health and injury does not provide a clear consensus on how to account for socioeconomic indicators in population and health outcome studies across countries. The World Studies of Abuse in the Family Environment (WorldSAFE) consortium conducted a series of population-based, multi-stage probability sampling cross-sectional surveys in selected communities in five countries from 1997 to 2003 that allows for the examination of the relationship of SES with current physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Women aged 15-49 years (n = 3975) from six urban low- and middle-income communities participating the the WorldSAFE consortium were interviewed. Using a standardized instrument, the following SES indicators were collected: dwelling ownership, land ownership, number of rooms in the house along with number of residents, toilet facilities, ownership of 13 specific individual/household items, current work status of the woman and her husband/partner, and years of formal schooling completed by the woman and her husband/partner. A family asset index was constructed using principal coordinate analysis. The outcome variables utilized in this manuscript were current (past 12 months) physical IPV, and current psychological IPV. Basic bivariate associations between the categorical predictors and outcome variables were followed by a multiple logistic regression analysis to investigate the effect of covariates on the study outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The were considerable variability among the six sampled communities with respect to the relationship between socioeconomic indicators and current physical and psychological IPV. In general, the employment status of the woman was related to her experience of intimate partner violence, and her educational level and family's assets index were protective factors. When considered in multiple logistic regression models, the asset index was the only indicator that was consistently significant across communities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The derived asset index as an SES indicator was found to be associated with current psychological and physical IPV against women across the sampled six communities in four countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"101-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24684115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"World studies of abuse in the family environment--risk factors for physical intimate partner violence.","authors":"L Jeyaseelan,&nbsp;Laura S Sadowski,&nbsp;Shuba Kumar,&nbsp;Fatma Hassan,&nbsp;Laurie Ramiro,&nbsp;Beatriz Vizcarra","doi":"10.1080/15660970412331292342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15660970412331292342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To identify risk factors for physical intimate partner violence against women in Chile, India, Egypt and the Philippines.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Population-based household survey.</p><p><strong>Settings: </strong>Selected urban communities in Temuco, Chile; ISmailia, Egypt; Lucknow, Trivandrum and Vellore in India and Metro Manila, Philippines.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Women aged 15-49 years of age who care for at least one child younger than 18 years of age. The number of participants was 442 in Chile, 631 in Egypt, 506 in Lucknow, 700 in Trivandrum, 716 in Vellore and 1000 in the Philippines.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measure: </strong>Risk of and protective factors against lifetime physical IPV.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant associations were found between several risk factors like regular alcohol consumption of the husband/partner, past witnessing of father beating mother, the woman's poor mental health and poor family work status, with any lifetime physical IPV. Woman's poor mental health and witnessing father beat mother were statistically significant only in a few sites. Poor family work status, differences in employment between husband and wife and experiencing harsh physical punishment during childhood, were not found to be statistically significant across all sites. Protective factors, like higher levels of husband's and wife's education, were only found to be significantly associated with any lifetime physical IPV in Trivandrum, India. Social support was not significantly associated with any lifetime physical IPV across all sites.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These large population-based household surveys have provided empirical evidence of the widespread nature of domestic violence and the relative commonality of risk factors across sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":84914,"journal":{"name":"Injury control and safety promotion","volume":"11 2","pages":"117-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15660970412331292342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24684117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}