title: [Intimate partner violence: study with female nurses].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Describe gender-based violence by intimate partners against female nurses in a sample of nurses in Andalucia, Spain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive transversal study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospitals and primary health care districts in Andalucia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six hundred and twenty-two female nurses that work as nurses in the eight provinces in Andalucia (Spain).
  
  
  METHODS
  Social-demographic characteristics and presence of abuse (psychological, physical and sexual).
  
  
  RESULTS
  78.5% of the nurses were married or with a regular partner and had the economic income based on both salaries; 71.1% had a child or an elderly dependent person. It was proved that there can be a statistical association between abuse and: marital status; life together; familiar economic support and children and/or dependent elderly person. The average age was 42.5±8.1 years old (22-62 years) and presented statistical age differences comparing both groups: abused (average 44 years) and non-abused (average 41.8 years). Between the married couples studied, 21.7% of them belong to the social class I and 16.9% to the social class II. Between all studied nurses, 33.0% suffered abuse, among which 75.1% were psychologically abused. Of all the abuse cases 60% were less severe and 40% more serious.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was confirmed the presence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against nurses, which was predominantly psychological abuse, but others classes of abuse were present too.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería de la Universidad de Córdoba, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, España. en1robom@uco.es
authors.forename: María Aurora
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Borrego
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaquero Abellán
authors.forename: Liana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bertagnolli
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Gomariz
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Redondo-Pedraza
authors.forename: Adoración
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Alonso
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult