Low Health-Related Quality of Life among Abused Women

In a cross-sectional study, we sent a self-administered questionnaire to all the women's shelters in Norway to describe health-related quality of life among women who had experienced violence from an intimate partner. Every woman who could understand Norwegian and was staying at a women's...

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Published in:Quality of life research 2006-08, Vol.15 (6), p.959-965
Main Authors: Alsaker, Kjersti, Moen, Bente E., Nortvedt, Monica W., Baste, Valborg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Anxiety
Battered women
Battered Women - psychology
Clinical and Policy Applications
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depression
Domestic violence
Female
Group Homes - utilization
Humans
Intimate partner violence
Intimate partners
Mental health
Middle Aged
Norway
Quality of life
Quality of Life - psychology
Questionnaires
Sexual violence
Shelters
Spouse Abuse - diagnosis
Spouse Abuse - psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Stress, Psychological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Violence against women
Women
Women's Health
Womens shelters
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Summary:In a cross-sectional study, we sent a self-administered questionnaire to all the women's shelters in Norway to describe health-related quality of life among women who had experienced violence from an intimate partner. Every woman who could understand Norwegian and was staying at a women's shelter in Norway for more than 1 week from October 2002 to May 2003 was asked to participate. We described violence by intimate partners by using the Severity of Violence against Women Scale and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Index. We used the SF-36 Health Survey to measure health-related quality of life. These women experienced a multitude of threats and actual physical and psychological violence during their partnership. Their health-related quality of life was low and significantly (p
ISSN:0962-9343
1573-2649
DOI:10.1007/s11136-006-0046-4