Intimate partner violence and anxiety disorders in pregnancy: the importance of vocational training of the nursing staff in facing them.
OBJECTIVE
to identify the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, trait and state anxiety, and intimate partner violence during pregnancy.


METHODS
observational, cross-sectional study developed with 358 pregnant women. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian Version was used, as well as the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and an adapted version of the instrument used in the World Health Organization Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence.


RESULTS
after adjusting to the multiple logistic regression model, intimate partner violence, occurred during pregnancy, was associated with the indication of posttraumatic stress disorder. The adjusted multiple linear regression models showed that the victims of violence, in the current pregnancy, had higher symptom scores of trait and state anxiety than non-victims.


CONCLUSIONS
recognizing the intimate partner violence as a clinically relevant and identifiable risk factor for the occurrence of anxiety disorders during pregnancy can be a first step in the prevention thereof.
Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Mariana de Oliveira
Mde O
Fonseca-Machado
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Juliana Cristina dos Santos
JC
Monteiro
Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Vanderlei José
VJ
Haas
Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena
AC
Abrão
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Flávia
F
Gomes-Sponholz
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D014829:Vocational Education; D055815:Young Adult