Intimate Partner Violence and Pregnancy Outcomes
Introduction The purpose of this problem background is to summarize information from five research articles that is available regarding Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and its influence on pregnancy outcomes. The goal is to while retrieving this information, gain knowledge on the topic that the PHIA Project will be focused on. The most common form of violence against women, is that which is inflicted by intimate partners (Desmarais, Pritchard, Lowder, & Janssen, 2014). This statistic is common to women all over the world irrespective. Intimate Partner Violence is often described as domestic violence. It can be experienced in different forms – physical, sexual and psychological (also called …show more content…
Interventions or complications at this stage often have lasting and widespread effects. Intimate Partner violence at a basic level is problematic because it affects so many. Being the most common form of violence against women, it is a worldwide problem with many repercussions. The reduction of its occurrence will result in a significant drop in violent encounters as a whole. Intimate Partner Violence can be defined by three categories- physical, sexual and psychological. Physical violence refers to activities that could hurt such as being slapped, pushed and beaten (Makayoto et al, 2012). Sexual violence is often defined as being negatively influenced to commit a sexual act either in a physical forceful way or through intimidation. Psychological violence is carried out with the goal of intimidation. It can have physical components as well like breaking of things to scare the victim into succumbing or threats to physically hurt the victim or those that they care about . In addition to the general unsafety that comes along with the occurrence of violence, IPV leads to other psychological and physiological disadvantages. Its psychological impacts include increased risk of anxiety, depression (particularly postpartum depression) and symptoms that are characteristic of Post-traumatic stress disorder (Makayoto et al, 2012). Physically, it can have effects on the pregnancy directly by resulting in complications …show more content…
Some of the observations in the studies were not consistent with those that had been observed in other countries or regions. In delving further into this topic, it would be interesting to focus on specific regions and possibly draw parallels based on how patriarchal a society is. There are numerous confounding variables that affect the associations observed but overall some observations remain standard. IPV perpetration and victimization both have an effect on pregnancy outcomes. While perpetration is often associated with victimization, a study that focuses on the impact of just perpetration would be an interesting one to
Introduction The purpose of this problem background is to summarize information from five research articles that is available regarding Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and its influence on pregnancy outcomes. The goal is to while retrieving this information, gain knowledge on the topic that the PHIA Project will be focused on. The most common form of violence against women, is that which is inflicted by intimate partners (Desmarais, Pritchard, Lowder, & Janssen, 2014). This statistic is common to women all over the world irrespective. Intimate Partner Violence is often described as domestic violence. It can be experienced in different forms – physical, sexual and psychological (also called …show more content…
Interventions or complications at this stage often have lasting and widespread effects. Intimate Partner violence at a basic level is problematic because it affects so many. Being the most common form of violence against women, it is a worldwide problem with many repercussions. The reduction of its occurrence will result in a significant drop in violent encounters as a whole. Intimate Partner Violence can be defined by three categories- physical, sexual and psychological. Physical violence refers to activities that could hurt such as being slapped, pushed and beaten (Makayoto et al, 2012). Sexual violence is often defined as being negatively influenced to commit a sexual act either in a physical forceful way or through intimidation. Psychological violence is carried out with the goal of intimidation. It can have physical components as well like breaking of things to scare the victim into succumbing or threats to physically hurt the victim or those that they care about . In addition to the general unsafety that comes along with the occurrence of violence, IPV leads to other psychological and physiological disadvantages. Its psychological impacts include increased risk of anxiety, depression (particularly postpartum depression) and symptoms that are characteristic of Post-traumatic stress disorder (Makayoto et al, 2012). Physically, it can have effects on the pregnancy directly by resulting in complications …show more content…
Some of the observations in the studies were not consistent with those that had been observed in other countries or regions. In delving further into this topic, it would be interesting to focus on specific regions and possibly draw parallels based on how patriarchal a society is. There are numerous confounding variables that affect the associations observed but overall some observations remain standard. IPV perpetration and victimization both have an effect on pregnancy outcomes. While perpetration is often associated with victimization, a study that focuses on the impact of just perpetration would be an interesting one to