TY - JOUR
TI - Intimate Partner Violence and Use of Primary and Emergency Care: The
Role of Informal Social Support
AU - Dias, Nicole Geovana
AU - Ribeiro, Ana Isabel
AU - Henriques, Ana and
AU - Soares, Joaquim
AU - Hatzidimitriadou, Eleni
AU - Ioannidi-Kapolou,
AU - Elisabeth
AU - Lindert, Jutta
AU - Sundin, Orjan
AU - Toth, Olga and
AU - Barros, Henrique
AU - Fraga, Silvia
JO - Health and Social Work
PY - 2020
VL - 45
TODO - 2
SP - 91-100
PB - OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
SN - 0360-7283, 1545-6854
TODO - 10.1093/hsw/hlaa007
TODO - health care utilization; health services; help-seeking behaviors;
informal social support; intimate partner violence
TODO - Social support may encourage victims to disclose their experiences of
intimate partner violence (IPV), but also to seek the appropriate help
and care in the social and health services. Using data from a
multicenter European project, DOVE (Domestic Violence Against women/men
in Europe-prevalence, determinants, effects, and policies/practices),
the present study aimed at measuring the frequency of primary care and
emergency use according to IPV types of victimization, and to
investigate whether victims receiving different levels of informal
social support are using health care differently. Results suggested a
significant association between IPV types and use of emergency services,
and no association was found regarding primary care services. Victims of
physical abuse and sexual coercion went to the emergency department (ED)
more frequently (more than once a year). Also, victims of physical abuse
receiving low social support visited an ED more frequently than those
with high social support, whereas victims of sexual coercion with high
informal social support went more often to the ED compared with victims
of sexual coercion with low social support, even after controlling for
other covariates. These results seem to suggest that social support has
a significant role in the decision to use health care among victims of
IPV.
ER -