title: Assessing physical, sexual, and psychological violence perpetrated by intimate male partners toward women: a Spanish cross-sectional study.
abstract: There have been many studies on the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women's health, there being agreement on its detrimental effect. Research has focused mainly on the impact of physical violence on health, with few studies assessing the effect of sexual and psychological violence. Furthermore, there are many differences in the way violence experienced by women is assessed. While some researchers use available instruments, others develop their own questionnaires. This article gives detailed information about physical, sexual, and psychological violence, lifetime history of women's victimization, and aspects of women's behavior and feelings obtained with the questionnaire used in a Spanish cross-sectional study. Our results corroborate that IPV is not homogeneous, it being necessary to ask women about each type of violence they have experienced. Furthermore, to accurately assess the impact of IPV on women's health, it is necessary to control for other variables that also have detrimental effects on health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: M Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Garcia-Linares
authors.forename: Maria A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pico-Alfonso
authors.forename: Segunda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Lorente
authors.forename: Francisca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Savall-Rodriguez
authors.forename: Nuria
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Celda-Navarro
authors.forename: Concepción
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blasco-Ros
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martinez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012742:Sex Offenses; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires