Health care utilization and costs associated with physical and nonphysical-only intimate partner violence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate health care utilization and costs associated with the type of intimate partner violence (IPV) women experience by the timing of their abuse.

Methods

A total of 3,333 women (ages 18-64) were randomly sampled from the membership files of a large health plan located in a metropolitan area and participated in a telephone survey to assess IPV history, including the type of IPV (physical IPV or nonphysical abuse only) and the timing of the abuse (ongoing; recent, not ongoing but occurring in the past 5 years; remote, ending at least 5 years prior). Automated annual health care utilization and costs were assembled over 7.4 years for women with physical IPV and nonphysical abuse only by the time period during which their abuse occurred (ongoing, recent, remote)

SUBMITTER: Bonomi AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2699921 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature