Mental health consequences of intimate partner abuse: A multidimensional assessment of four different forms of abuse

Violence Against Women

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 634-654

  Mechanic, Mindy B ^a   Weaver, Terri L ^b   Resick, Patricia A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Battered women; Depression; Intimate partner abuse; Mental health; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 44849087522     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801208319283     Document Type: Article

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