Associations between intimate partner violence and reproductive and maternal health outcomes in Bihar, India: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bihar, India has higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and maternal and infant mortality relative to India as a whole. This study assesses whether IPV is associated with poor reproductive and maternal health outcomes, as well as whether poverty exacerbates any observed associations, among women who gave birth in the preceding 23 months in Bihar, India.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis of data from a representative household sample of mothers of children 0-23 months old in Bihar, India (N = 13,803) was conducted. Associations between lifetime IPV (physical and/or sexual violence) and poor reproductive health outcomes ever (miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion) as well as maternal complications for the index pregnancy (early and/or prolonged labor compl

SUBMITTER: Dhar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6009820 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature