The high risk of IPV against Canadian women with disabilities

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Brownridge, Douglas A ^a,b   Ristock, Janice ^a   Hiebert Murphy, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Arthur V Mauro Center for Peace and Justice   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disabled; Violence; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANADA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEALOUSY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; VICTIM;

BATTERED WOMEN; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEALOUSY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SPOUSE ABUSE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 43549090179     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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