Violence towards others by a minority of psychotic individuals is a significant public health concern. The severity of this other-directed violence (ODV) in the community may be influenced by insight into illness and adherence to psychotropic medications; however, few studies have tested these associations. Sixty male psychotic inpatients, legally detained at a forensic unit in New York City, w...

OBJECTIVE Migrant worker abuse is well recognised, but poorly characterised within the scientific literature. This study aimed to explore patterns of abuse amongst Sri Lankan women returning home after working as domestic maids. METHODS Sri Lanka has over 2 million of its citizens employed overseas as international labor migrants. A cross-sectional study was conducted on Sri Lankan female dom...

background: violence against women is a serious social problem and affects mainly young women. this study aimed to evaluate sexual violence against women in campina grande, brazil. methods: a retrospective study with analysis of 886 forensic medical reports of sexual violence from the institute of legal medicine of campina grande, brazil, was conducted between january 2005 and december 2009. so...

Using a unique panel data set of state-to-state outward and return migration flows between Mexico and the United States from 1995 to 2012, this study is the first to analyze Mexico-U.S. migration at the state level and explore simultaneously the effect of economic, environmental, and social factors in Mexico over two decades. Pairing origin and destination states and controlling for a rich stru...

In the United States and around the world, self-directed violence is a serious public health problem. Such violence includes acts of suicidal behavior (fatal and nonfatal attempts), suicidal ideation (thinking about, considering, or planning for suicide), and nonsuicidal, intentional self-harm (behaviors with the intention not to kill oneself, as in self­ mutilation). 2, 3 Fatal and nonfatal su...

  Background: Millions of men and women suffer from infertility worldwide.In many cultures, infertile women are at risk of social and emotional problems.Infertility may affect the public health in many countries. Domestic violence is the intentional use of physical force, power or threat against oneself, another person or another group or community whichleadstoinjury,death,mentalharm, lackofdev...

Background Millions of men and women suffer from infertility worldwide. In many cultures, infertile women are at risk of social and emotional problems. Infertility may affect the public health in many countries. Domestic violence is the intentional use of physical force, power or threat against oneself, another person or another group or community which leads to injury, death, mental harm, lack...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to detect the role of early maladaptive schemas in a variety of domestic violence cases against women with an experience of violence. Methods: In this study, a correlational design was used. The sample consisted of 197 women living in Tehran, who had experienced various levels of violence. The instruments consisted of Young Schema Questionnaire-Short ...