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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 290-310Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204271959
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domestic violence; help seeking; service provision
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Data were obtained from the Chicago Womens Health Risk Study, in which 491 abused women were interviewed in public health centers and a hospital. Responses of a subgroup of these Women Who did not seek help through the identified interventions are examined. Common themes emerge across the help-seeking interventions studied: individual thresholds for the seriousness of the violence, a perceived requirement to end the relationship, and certain specific barriers. The responses provide a glimpse into abused women's reasons for not seeking particular interventions. Implications for public health, mental health, domestic violence counseling agencies, and the police are discussed.
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