title: Violence against young women attending primary care services in Spain: prevalence and health consequences.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There are a significant number of studies assessing the negative health consequences of violence against women. However, a limited number of studies analyse the health consequences of violence committed against young women by different types of aggressors.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The goal of this study is to assess the prevalence of interpersonal violence against young women in Spain and analyse its impact on the physical and mental health of the victims.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 1076 women aged 18-25 years attending Spanish primary care services were selected. We estimated the prevalence of interpersonal violence and compared the health data and demographic characteristics of abused and non-abused young women, multi-logistic regression models were fitted. The Wald test was used to assess whether there were differences in the negative health consequences of intimate partner (IPV) versus non-IPV.
  
  
  RESULTS
  As many as 27.6% young women reported a history of abuse, of whom 42.7% had been assaulted by their partner, 41.1% by someone other than their partner and 16.2% both by their partner and another person. The distribution of social and demographic characteristics was similar for IPV and non-IPV victims. Young abused women were three times more likely to suffer psychological distress and have somatic complaints, and they were four times more likely to use medication as compared to non-abused women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results suggest that all forms of violence compromise young women's health seriously. Including patients' history of abuse in their health record may help make more informed clinical decisions and provide a more integrated care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Inequalities, Epidemiology and Public Health Network Biomedical Research Consortium (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, martin_dav@gva.es.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martín-Baena
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Inequalities, Epidemiology and Public Health Network Biomedical Research Consortium (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Montero-Piñar
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Inequalities, Epidemiology and Public Health Network Biomedical Research Consortium (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Health Inequality, Health Promotion and Biomedical Research Foundation (FISABIO), Valencia, Spain and.
authors.forename: Vicenta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Escribà-Agüir
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Inequalities, Epidemiology and Public Health Network Biomedical Research Consortium (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Public Health, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vives-Cases
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence; D016015:Logistic Models; D008603:Mental Health; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012649:Self Concept; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Health consequences; interpersonal violence; prevalence; young women.