title: The relationship between intimate partner violence and PTSD: an application of Cox regression with time-varying covariates.
abstract: This study uses Cox regression with time-varying covariates to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a random sample of Japanese American women and immigrant women from Japan (N = 211). Because applications of survival analysis in trauma research are scarce, this paper presents the utility of this analytical approach by contrasting it with other common methods of analysis (chi-square tests and Cox regression with covariates that do not change over time).
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1106, USA. miekoy@umich.edu
authors.forename: Mieko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshihama
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horrocks
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology