Citation

Dekel R, Shaked O, Ben-Porat A, Itzhaky H. Violence Against Women 2019; ePub(ePub): 1077801219832916.

Affiliation

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801219832916

PMID

30940066

Abstract

Researchers have found that intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with low self-rated health (SRH), which is correlated with increased medication usage, and has tremendous social consequences. IPV and low SRH are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, and the current study examined the interrelations between these variables among 505 Israeli women in shelters. To assess mediation, three regressions were designed. Traumatic events, Russian ethnicity, and chronic illness all contributed to low SRH. The direct effect of depression on SRH was insignificant when PTSD entered the regression. Our findings suggest that PTSD is a more fundamental factor than depression when predicting SRH among IPV survivors.

Language: en

Keywords

PTSD; SRH; intimate partner violence; shelters