The IPV-GBM Scale: A New Scale to Measure Intimate Partner Violence among Gay and Bisexual Men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Stephenson, Rob ^a   Finneran, Catherine ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BISEXUAL MALE; CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE 2S SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SCALE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; BISEXUALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878755733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062592     Document Type: Article

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