Associations between exposure to intimate partner violence, armed conflict, and probable PTSD among women in rural Côte d’Ivoire

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Gupta, J, Falb, KL, Carliner, H, Hossain, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1878-8145, Kpebo, D and Annan, J, 2014. Associations between exposure to intimate partner violence, armed conflict, and probable PTSD among women in rural Côte d’Ivoire. PLoS ONE, 9 (5): e96300. ISSN 1932-6203

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096300

Abstract

Background: Objectives were to assess associations between intimate partner violence (IPV), violence during armed conflict (i.e. crisis violence), and probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Methods: Using a sample of 950 women in rural Côte d’Ivoire, logistic generalized estimating equations assessed associations between IPV and crisis violence exposures with past-week probable PTSD.

Results: Over one in 5 (23.4%) women reported past-year IPV, and over one in 4 women (26.5%) reported experiencing IPV prior to the past year (i.e. remote IPV). Crisis violence was experienced by 72.6% of women. In adjusted models including demographics, crisis violence (overall and specific forms), and IPV (remote and past-year), women who reported past-year IPV had 3.1 times the odds of reporting probable past-week PTSD (95%CI: 1.8–5.3) and those who reported remote IPV had 1.6 times the odds (95%CI: 0.9–2.7). Violent exposures during the crisis were not significantly associated with probable PTSD (any crisis violence: aOR: 1.04 (0.7–1.5); displacement: aOR: 0.9 (95%CI: 0.5–1.7); family victimization during crisis: aOR: 1.1 (95%CI: 0.8–1.7); personal victimization during crisis: aOR: 1.7 (95%CI: 0.7–3.7)).

Conclusion: Past-year IPV was more strongly associated with past-week probable PTSD than remote IPV and violence directly related to the crisis. IPV

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	PLoS ONE
Creators:	Gupta, J., Falb, K.L., Carliner, H., Hossain, M., Kpebo, D. and Annan, J.
Publisher:	Public Library of Science
Date:	13 May 2014
Volume:	9
Number:	5
ISSN:	1932-6203
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1371/journal.pone.0096300 DOI 1727606 Other
Rights:	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	08 Feb 2023 09:57
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2023 09:57
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48190