@article{ref1,
title="Exposure to interparental violence and psychosocialmaladjustment in the adult life course: advocacy forearly prevention",
journal="Journal of epidemiology and community health",
year="2009",
author="Roustit, Christelle and Renahy, E. and Guernec, G. and Lesieur, S. and Parizot, I. and Chauvin, P.",
volume="63",
number="7",
pages="563-568",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through lifecourse epidemiological studies. AIMS: To investigate the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and mental health outcomes in adulthood when taking into account early family and social stressors. METHODS: A retrospective French cohort study of 3023 adults representative of the general population in the Paris metropolitan area was conducted in 2005 through at home,face-to-face interviews. The outcomes measureswere current depression and lifetime suicide attempt,intimate partner violence, violence against children and alcohol dependence. RESULTS: The adults exposed to interparental violence during childhood had a higher risk of psychosocial maladjustment. After adjusting for family- and social-level stressors in childhood, this risk was, respectively, 1.44(95% CI 1.03 to 2.00) for depression, 3.17 (1.75 to 5.73)for conjugal violence, 4.75 (1.60 to 14.14) for child maltreatment and 1.75 (1.19 to 2.57) for alcohol dependence. CONCLUSIONS: The adult consequences of parental violence in childhood - and this independently of the other forms of domestic violence and the related psychosocial risks - should lead to intensifying the prevention of and screening for this form of maltreatment of children.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0143-005X",
doi="10.1136/jech.2008.077750",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2008.077750"
}