Journal
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Volume 29, Issue 17, Pages 3127-3149Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0886260514534528
Keywords
vulnerability to abuse; domestic violence; women with disabilities; predictors of household violence; cultural contexts
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Women with disabilities (WWDs) are at triple jeopardy due to the combined risks associated with gender, disability, and violence. Not only are WWDs marginalized socially but the violence against them in their own homes is largely neglected in domestic violence research. Evidence from developing countries is particularly sparse. A cross-sectional survey conducted in Cambodia found rates of violence by household members besides intimate partners were significantly higher among WWDs than non-disabled women. This violence engendered increased levels of psychological distress and higher rates of physical injury but low rates of disclosure to health workers and other formal sources of potential support. Community-based strategies are recommended to radically change social and cultural attitudes, beliefs, and responses to WWDs who are victims of household violence to reduce negative social reactions toward them and to make it safer for them to disclose and receive psychosocial, legal, and other necessary support for this underreported type of violence.
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