"I Can Remember Thinking, Like Almost Wishing, That the Injuries Would Have Been Worse, Because Then I Wouldn't Be Questioned": A Qualitative Study on Women's Experience of Accessing Healthcare for Intimate Partner Violence-Related Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: To identify the barriers and facilitators to accessing healthcare following intimate partner violence (IPV)-related brain injury (BI). Methods: Sixteen adult women participated in interviews about their experience of accessing healthcare following IPV-related BI. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using the interpretative descriptive (ID) approach to identify themes and subthemes in the data. Results: Two themes, each with six subthemes related to healthcare seeking for IPV-related BI were identified: Theme 1-Deciding to seek and ability to access healthcare, comprising (a) severity of injury; (b) impact of injury; (c) ability to access medical services; (d) self-blame, fear, shame, and guilt; (e) contextual influences on healthcar

SUBMITTER: Valera EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12841078 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature