Journal
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 838-850Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206292671
Keywords
abuse; depression; disability; minority women; social isolation; violence
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- PHS HHS [R04/CCR614142] Funding Source: Medline
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In a sample of 415 predominantly minority women with physical disabilities recruited from private and public specialty outpatient clinics, we examined experiences of physical, sexual, and disability-related abuse within the past year and its associations with demographic, disability, and psychosocial characteristics. Logistic regression analyses identified 27% of the variance and indicated that women with disabilities who were younger, more educated, less mobile, more socially isolated, and who had higher levels of depression may have a higher likelihood of having experienced abuse in the past year. This model correctly identified 84% of the abused women with disabilities. Questions of directionality, the role of disability, and validity testing are discussed.
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