title: The incidence and prevalence of woman abuse in Toronto.
abstract: A telephone survey on the physical abuse of women by a male intimate was conducted with a representative sample of 604 Toronto women. Results showed an annual incidence rate of 14.4% and a prevalence rate of 25.0%, based on the Conflict Tactics Scales as the measure of abuse. Several additional measures increased the prevalence rate to 36.4%. These estimates, which are much higher than those obtained in a similar survey conducted two years earlier in Toronto, appear to be the result mainly of improved methodological procedures in the present study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009864:Ontario / Q000453:epidemiology; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014754:Violence