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Prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a longitudinal cohort study in the south of Sweden

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, August 2016
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Title
Prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a longitudinal cohort study in the south of Sweden
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-1017-6
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Hafrún Finnbogadóttir, Anna-Karin Dykes, Christine Wann-Hansson

Abstract

Domestic violence during pregnancy is not only a severe public health issue that jeopardizes maternal and foetal health but also violates human rights. The aim was to explore the prevalence and incidence of domestic violence among pregnant women, in the southwestern region of Scania in Sweden, and their experience of a history of violence. In addition, to explore the association between domestic violence during pregnancy and possible risk factors. This is a longitudinal cohort-study including pregnant women ≥18 years of age, registered at antenatal care when pregnant. A cohort of 1939 pregnant women answered Questionnaire I (QI) in gestational week 13 (mean 12.8 week, SD 5.11). Response rate of Questionnaire II (QII) in gestation week 34 (mean 33.9 week, SD 2.2) was 78.8 % (n = 1527). Statistical analysis was descriptive statistics, logistic regression and multiple regression with Odds ratios (OR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI). Both QI and QII were completed by 77.8 % (n = 1509) of the women and 44.3 % (n = 668) reported a lifetime experience of abuse irrespective of type, severity or perpetrator. Also, 5.1 % (n = 77) reported some experience of abuse past year. Prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy was 2.0 % (n = 29) and the incidence was 7.3 new cases per 1000 women. The strongest risk factor for domestic violence, during early and late pregnancy, was history of violence whereby all women who disclosed exposure had also reported history of violence (p < 0.001). To be single/living apart gave 8.4 times more risk associated with domestic violence during pregnancy (AOR 8.4; 95 % CI: 2.2-32.6). Having several symptoms of depression and lack of sleep gave 3.8 times more risk respectively (AOR 3.8; 95 % CI: 1.1-13.6) and (AOR 3.8; 95 % CI 1.1-12.9). Pregnant women with a history of violence as well as being single/living apart and/or having several symptoms of depression during pregnancy should be alerts for clinical working midwives and obstetricians. Further, this is important knowledge for health care providers to develop or upgrade guidelines and plans of action for pregnant women exposed to violence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Greece 1 <1%
Unknown 184 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 17%
Student > Bachelor 22 12%
Student > Postgraduate 14 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 35 19%
Unknown 59 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 16%
Psychology 21 11%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Neuroscience 5 3%
Other 17 9%
Unknown 65 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2017.
All research outputs
#5,675,953
of 22,958,253 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,439
of 4,218 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,330
of 343,202 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#41
of 115 outputs
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