The Impacts of Lifetime Violence on Women's Current Sexual Health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intimate partner violence (IPV), nonpartner sexual violence (SV), child sexual and physical abuse, and neglect have detrimental impacts on women's reproductive and sexual health. More empirical studies are needed to investigate the negative impacts of lifetime violence, including physical or sexual child abuse, nonpartner SV, physical, sexual, and psychological IPV on women's sexual health to better understand long-term impacts from IPV and physical or sexual child abuse.

Materials and methods

We used data from Wellness, Health and You, an ongoing health registry. A total of 1,213 women were included in data analysis. Our aim was to investigate the associations between lifetime IPV, nonpartner SV, child abuse, and women's current sexual health defined using Patien

SUBMITTER: Guler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10890937 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature