Associations between Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence, Armed Conflict, and Probable PTSD among Women in Rural Côte d'Ivoire.

CONCLUSION: Past-year IPV was more strongly associated with past-week probable PTSD than remote IPV and violence directly related to the crisis. IPV must be considered within humanitarian mental health and psychosocial programming.
PMID: 24823492 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - May 17, 2014 Category: Rural Health Authors: Gupta J, Falb KL, Carliner H, Hossain M, Kpebo D, Annan J Tags: PLoS One Source Type: research