Prevalence of perceived experiences of emotional, physical, sexual, and health care abuse in a Swedish male patient sample

Violence and Victims

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-279

  Swahnberg, Katarina ^a   Hearn, Jeff ^a   Wijma, Barbro ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Health care; Questionnaire; Validation; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; HEALTH CARE ABUSE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATIENT ABUSE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 66349119664     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.2.265     Document Type: Article

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