scholarly journals Nurses’ Role in Caring for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence in the Sri Lankan Context

ISRN Nursing ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepali Guruge
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Nurses Role ◽  
Short And Long Term

Intimate partner violence has short- and long-term physical and mental health consequences. As the largest healthcare workforce globally, nurses are well positioned to care for abused women. However, their role in this regard has not been researched in some countries. This paper is based on a qualitative study that explored how Sri Lankan nurses perceive their role in caring for women who have experienced partner violence. Interviews with 30 nurses who worked in diverse clinical and geographical settings in Sri Lanka revealed that nurses’ role involved: identifying abuse, taking care of patients’ physical needs, attending to their safety, providing support and advice, and making referrals. Barriers to providing care included lack of knowledge; heavy workload; language barriers; threats to personal safety; nurses’ status within the healthcare hierarchy; and lack of communication and collaboration between various stakeholder groups within the healthcare system. Nurses also identified a lack of appropriate services and support within hospitals and in the community. The findings reveal an urgent need for the healthcare system to respond to nurses’ educational and training needs and help them function autonomously within multidisciplinary teams when caring for abused women. The findings also point to a need to address institutional barriers including the lack of appropriate services for abused women.

scholarly journals Exploring the Linkages between Substance Use, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Rapid Review in the Context of COVID-19

Sexes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-522
Author(s):  
Andreea C. Brabete ◽  
Lindsay Wolfson ◽  
Julie Stinson ◽  
Nancy Poole ◽  
Sarah Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

Rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and substance use have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially enduring effects on women’s health. A rapid review was conducted on IPV and women’s substance use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid review explored two separate research questions with a view to integrate the literature related to: (1) containment, social isolation, pandemics, disasters, lockdowns, and IPV; and (2) the relationships between substance use and IPV. Two different searches for each question were conducted between May and October 2020 and n = 47 articles were included. Women experience multiple physical and mental health consequences related to IPV that can be exacerbated by public health crises such as pandemics and disasters. Perpetrators may use these events as a tactic to threaten, isolate, or use coercive control. Similar tactics are reported in the complex relationship between IPV and substance use, where substance use can accompany IPV and/or be used as a coping mechanism for survivors. The findings highlight long standing women’s health concerns made further visible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional research is needed to identify actions required to reduce gender inequities and harms associated with IPV and substance use, and to adequately tailor and prepare effective responses in the context of future public health crises.

scholarly journals Social Entrapment Evidence: Understanding Its Role in Self-Defence Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Douglas ◽  
Stella Tarrant ◽  
Julia Tolmie
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Expert Evidence ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Self Defence

This article considers what evidence juries need to help them apply the defence of self-defence where a woman claims she has killed an abusive partner to save her own life. Drawing on recent research and cases we argue that expert evidence admitted in these types of cases generally fails to provide evidence about the nature of abuse, the limitations in the systemic safety responses and the structural inequality that abused women routinely face. Evidence of the reality of the woman’s safety options, including access to, and the realistic support offered by, services such as police, housing, childcare, safety planning and financial support should be presented. In essence, juries need evidence about what has been called social entrapment so they can understand how women’s safety options are deeply intertwined with their degree of danger and therefore with the question of whether their response (of killing their abuser) was necessary based on reasonable grounds. We consider the types of evidence that may be important in helping juries understand the concept and particular circumstances of social entrapment, including the role of experts in this context.

Intimate partner violence

2018 ◽  
pp. 465-476
Author(s):  
Carmen Wong ◽  
Wai Ching Ng ◽  
Hua Zhong ◽  
Anne Scully-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
World Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Internal And External Factors

Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to any action that causes physical, sexual, and psychological harm by intimate partners, which includes domestic violence. This chapter gives a brief overview and details the prevalence, current theories, research, and evidence, including patriarchy and gender issues. IPV is complex, with internal and external factors relating to the victim, perpetrator, family, and the community. The long-term impacts on physical and mental health are reviewed. Recent direction by the World Health Organization describes a multi-level integrated approach, which is discussed topically in terms of individual, relational, and community prevention and intervention and its challenges. Finally, policies and laws relating to IPV are reviewed. This chapter has been written collaboratively by a multidisciplinary team of medical, social, and legal professionals.

Animal Maltreatment in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Manifestation of Power and Control?

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (15) ◽  
pp. 1806-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Fitzgerald ◽  
Betty Jo Barrett ◽  
Rochelle Stevenson ◽  
Chi Ho Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
Animal Neglect

This study tests the theoretically informed assumption that intimate partner violence (IPV) and animal abuse so frequently co-occur because animal maltreatment is instrumentalized by abusers to harm human victims. Using data from a survey of abused women in Canadian shelters, we find that threats to harm “pets,” emotional animal abuse, and animal neglect are clearly perceived by these survivors as being intentionally perpetrated by their abuser and motivated by a desire to upset and control them; the findings related to physical animal abuse are not as straightforward. Building on these findings, we propose a more nuanced theorizing of the coexistence of animal maltreatment and IPV.

A Qualitative Study of Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052093636
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Stults ◽  
Stephan A. Brandt ◽  
Jonathan F. Hale ◽  
Nicholas Rogers ◽  
Anna E. Kreienberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Psychosocial Conditions ◽  
And Bisexual

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent among young gay and bisexual men (YGBM) and is associated with physical and mental health problems, as well as deleterious psychosocial conditions. Most previous studies of IPV among YGBM have been quantitative in nature and have not examined the numerous subtypes of IPV, the chronicity of IPV experiences, and how is IPV manifested in the context of these same-sex relationships. Thus, a qualitative approach may be useful in exploring these multidimensional and understudied experiences. The present qualitative study sought to (a) explore dimensions of IPV victimization, perpetration, and bidirectional IPV among a sample of ( n = 26) YGBM living in New York City and (b) explore the chronicity of IPV experiences among these YGBM. Participants were recruited from an ongoing cohort study of YGBM. Participants completed semistructured interviews that included questions about IPV victimization, perpetration, and bidirectional IPV. A modified version of the consensual qualitative research method was used to analyze the data. The YGBM in this study reported numerous forms of physical, psychological, sexual, and financial IPV victimization and perpetration. Bidirectional experiences of IPV were common. The various subtypes of IPV victimization and perpetration are explored in detail in this manuscript. In addition, many participants reported multiple experiences of abuse within the same relationship, and some participants experienced a pattern of abusive relationships over time. This study corroborates findings from quantitative studies, which indicate that IPV is a prevalent and significant health problem among YGBM, and one that warrants additional attention from researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers. Furthermore, this study adds rich qualitative data to the existing literature—data that can be used to help develop and refine future measures of IPV that are tailored for use with YGBM.

Battered Wives or Dependent Mothers? Negotiating Familial Ideology in Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 901-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chulani Kodikara
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Battered Woman ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Large Numbers

More than a decade after its passing, Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA) remains a remedy of last resort for female survivors of intimate partner violence, as there is little support to take on a rights-defined identity as a battered woman both inside and outside the courtroom. However, large numbers of women are accessing the Maintenance Act of 1999 to exit violent relationships without the censure and stigma that attaches to the PDVA. The key to understanding this phenomenon is to consider how familial ideology works in unpredictable ways within the Sri Lankan judicial system. This article examines the reach and different impacts of familial ideology within the judiciary and argues that female survivors of violence navigate this ideology to their own advantage. However, the preference to address violence through the Maintenance Act renders such violence invisible. The price for judicial redress is silence.

“Made Me Feel Connected”: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Routine Screening Pathways to Impact

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 334-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Spangaro ◽  
Jane Koziol-McLain ◽  
Alison Rutherford ◽  
Anthony B. Zwi
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Routine Screening ◽  
Abused Women

Intimate partner violence (IPV) routine screening is widely implemented, yet the evidence for pathways to impact remains unclear. Of the 32 abused women interviewed 16 weeks after antenatal IPV screening, 24 reported positive impact, six reported nil positive impact, and two reported negative impact. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), key conditions for positive impact were care in asking, and support and validation from the midwife. Lack of these and lack of continuity of care were relevant to nil positive impact. Benefits included naming the abuse, connection, unburdening, taking steps to safety, and enabling informed care. Disclosure was not required for positive impact.

scholarly journals Assessment of intimate partner violence abuse ratings by recently abused and never abused women

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen E. Straus ◽  
Elizabeth H. Guonjian ◽  
Errick Christian ◽  
Rebecca R. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women

scholarly journals The experiences of survivors of intimate partner violence in Thai women

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-141
Author(s):  
Suwannee Sroisong ◽  
Somporn Kantharadussadee Triamchaisri ◽  
Ronnachai Kongsakon ◽  
Trude Bennett ◽  
Ratchneewan Ross
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Thai Women ◽  
Psychological Suffering ◽  
Seeking Help

Purpose The study on experiences of women with intimate partner violence (IPV) reveals the meanings of recovering psychological health and independence from their abuser. However, not much study has been done to reveal experiences of abused women in their attempt to recover from their past traumatic experiences in the context of Thai society. The purpose of this paper is to explore experiences of survivors of IPV in Thai women. Design/methodology/approach Key informants included ten women who had experienced IPV and left abusive relationships. They were recruited from a provincial hospital in upper southern part of Thailand. Data were collected from in-depth interviews and analyzed using a phenomenological method. Findings Findings showed that five themes had emerged as follows: seeking help and support; decision to terminate the abusive trap; enhancing empowerment to solve their problems; learning to forgive the abuser; and adopting the ability to stand on one’s own two feet. Originality/value The study helps shed light on the recovering of the abused women. The survivors had faced psychological suffering and economic problems. Therefore, they need supports in order to make the exit possible and to use group support to increase their strength in fighting against an abusive relationship.

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