Biagio, Leonardo Domingos;
Devakumar, Delanjathan;
Falcão de Carvalho, Leticia;
Pinheiro de Castro, Natália;
López, Rossana Verónica Mendoza;
Luzia, Liania Alves;
Pizzi Argentato, Perla;
(2024)
Factors associated with domestic violence in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic: Araraquara Cohort study.
BJPsych Bulletin
10.1192/bjb.2024.43.
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Abstract
AIMS AND METHOD: This cross-sectional study, carried out from 2021 to 2022, investigated the factors associated with domestic violence in 400 Brazilian pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence was assessed with the World Health Organization's Violence Against Women questionnaire and the Abuse Assessment Screen. Demographic, socioeconomic, obstetric, lifestyle and mental health data were collected. RESULTS: Violence at any time in their lives was reported by 52.2% of the women, and psychological violence was the most prevalent type (19.5%). Violence was associated with being single and mental health changes. Pregnant women exposed to any lifetime violence and psychological violence were, respectively, 4.67 and 5.93 times more likely to show mental health changes compared with women with no reported violence. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Training health professionals involved in prenatal care in the early detection of single women and women with mental health changes could be important in preventing domestic violence.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Factors associated with domestic violence in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic: Araraquara Cohort study |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1192/bjb.2024.43 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.43 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, Domestic violence, mental health, pandemic, pregnant women |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192870 |
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