title: Subjective Sleep Quality in Women With Divorce Histories: The Role of Intimate Partner Victimization.
abstract: A marital status of divorced or separated, as opposed to married, predicts increased risk of health problems, but not for all persons. Focusing on one established health risk that has been linked with divorce--poor subjective sleep quality--the present cross-sectional study examined whether a history of physical intimate partner victimization (IPV) helps identify divorced women at potentially greater risk of health problems. Community midlife women with divorce histories, all of whom were free of current IPV, reported on their past month sleep quality and lifetime IPV. The predicted odds of poor sleep quality were significantly greater for women with, versus without, IPV histories. This held after adjusting for socioemotional, medical, or sociodemographic risks. A dose-response relationship between IPV chronicity and poor quality sleep was observed. IPV history may help identify divorced women at increased risk of poor quality sleep and, more broadly, poor health.
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville, KY, USA tlnewton@louisville.edu.
authors.forename: Tamara L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Newton
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville, KY, USA.
authors.forename: Vicki Ellison
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville, KY, USA.
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville, KY, USA.
authors.forename: G Rafael
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Botran
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004243:Divorce / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: divorce; intimate partner victimization; postmenopausal; posttraumatic stress; sleep quality