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| Title |
Aggressive behaviour among drug-using women from Cape Town, South Africa: ethnicity, heavy alcohol use, methamphetamine and intimate partner violence
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| Published in |
BMC Women's Health, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12905-017-0447-2 |
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| Authors |
Tara Carney, Bronwyn Myers, Tracy L. Kline, Kim Johnson, Wendee M. Wechsberg |
| Abstract |
Women have generally been found to be the victims of violence, but scant attention has been paid to the characteristics of women who perpetrate aggression and violence. In South Africa, violence is a prevalent societal issue, especially in the Western Cape. This study aimed at identifying factors that were associated with aggression among a sample of 720 substance-using women. We conducted multivariate logistic regression to identify factors that are significantly associated with these behaviours. Ethnicity (Wald Χ(2) = 17.07(2), p < 0.01) and heavy drinking (Wald Χ(2) = 6.60 (2), p = 0.01) were significantly related to verbal aggression, methamphetamine use was significantly related to physical (Wald Χ(2) = 2.73 (2), p = 0.01) and weapon aggression (Wald Χ(2) = 7.94 (2), p < 0.01) and intimate partner violence was significantly related to verbal (Wald Χ(2) = 12.43 (2), p < 0.01) and physical aggression (Wald Χ(2) = 25.92 (2), p < 0.01). The findings show high levels of aggression among this sample, and highlight the need for interventions that address methamphetamine, heavy drinking and intimate partner violence among vulnerable substance-using women. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| South Africa | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 77 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 77 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 21% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 30 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 12 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 8% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 33 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 06 November 2017.
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#13,408,481
of 23,342,664 outputs
Outputs from BMC Women's Health
#972
of 1,893 outputs
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#156,095
of 322,536 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Women's Health
#20
of 37 outputs
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