Journal article
Visualising Patterns in Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in the First 10 years of Motherhood
KM FitzPatrick, S Brown, K Hegarty, F Mensah, D Gartland
Journal of Interpersonal Violence | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2023
Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) can involve patterns of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Women typically experience physical IPV in combination with emotional IPV, while emotional IPV is often experienced in the absence of other types of IPV. There is very little known about women’s experiences of these different types of IPV over time. The primary aim of this paper is to describe patterns in women’s individual experiences of physical and/or emotional IPV across the first 10 years of motherhood. Data were drawn from a prospective pregnancy cohort of 1507 first-time mothers in Melbourne, Australia. Emotional, physical, and combined physical and emotional IPV were reported in the first, f..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Maternal Health Study was supported by project grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (#199222, #433006, and #491205) and Australian Rotary Health. Stephanie Brown held a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (#1103976). Fiona Mensah held an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (1111160), and Deirdre Gartland is supported by the NHMRC Safer Families Centre (#1116690). Kelly FitzPatrick received a scholarship from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in association with the NHMRC Safer Families CRE. Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program.