Category Archives: Intimate Partner Violence

Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship

While there are well-established links between social support and intimate partner violence (IPV), the directionality of this relationship has not been firmly established due to a dearth of longitudinal evidence. Using data from the Bachpan cohort study, a unique study … Continue reading

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Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh

Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, however it is unclear whether the protective effect of marriage after age 18 is modified by local norms around age of marriage.   In … Continue reading

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Recent Social Epi Research Papers

In a recent paper in the journal Injury Epidemiology Keyes and colleagues applied age-period-cohort analyses to data on fatal motorcycle crashes in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System data and found that baby-boomers have experienced significantly higher mortality from motorcycle crashes than … Continue reading

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IPV in late adolescence and young adulthood and subsequent cardiovascular risk in adulthood.

Shakira Suglia and colleagues recently published an article describing the relation between Intimate partner violence (IPV) in adolescence and young adulthood and cardiovascular risk in adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) the … Continue reading

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