Citation

Nosek MA, Hughes RB, Taylor HB, Taylor P. Violence Against Women 2006; 12(9): 838-850.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801206292671

PMID

16905676

Abstract

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.

Language: en