Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. The purpose of this work is to formally model patterns of intimate partner violence IPV separately for males and females and to assess the unique contributions of different types of violence exposure to health related outcomes. Multivariable logistic regression analyses assessed the differential physical health, mental health, and substance use consequences of exposure to IPV by gender. Women and men experience similar types of IPV, although the prevalence of the different types of violence is much greater for women than men.
Second, exposure to IPV for both women and men is associated with a range of negative health outcomes including increased odds of poor physical health and physical disability, psychological distress and mental illness, and heightened recreational and non-recreational substance use.
Finally, there is some evidence that experiences with IPV have stronger and broader associations with negative health outcomes among women, likely reflecting differences in the severity of violence experienced by men and women.
More attention to the ways in which interpersonal violence is conceptualized, measured, and screened for is crucial. Specifically, while women have greater exposure to IPV, and subsequently a greater range of health problems, the effects on men should not be ignored.
Evidence from a wide variety of sources shows intimate partner violence IPV to be associated with negative physical and psychological health effects. Virtually all of the extant research in this area considers IPV as an event or operationalizes it in terms of the severity or extent of violence experienced. In contrast, our approach formally examines IPV as a multi-dimensional experience that includes the patterning of a range of behaviors. Second, we examine the effects of different types of IPV on a wide range of health outcomes.
