Background: Few empirical studies have specifically evaluated the causal connection between problem gambling and domestic or family violence within East and SouthEast Asian populations. Evidence from qualitative and quantitative studies suggests that at the very least, an association exists. Lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence has been drawn from various Asian communities, and rang...

BACKGROUND Clinicians are mandated reporters for child abuse and elder abuse. Medical organizations recommend that patients be assessed for domestic violence. To date, the only quality improvement instrument related to family violence is a tool for assessing hospitals' domestic violence efforts. METHODS Using the Delphi method of consensus among national experts, we modified the hospital tool...

OBJECTIVE This research examined whether additional forms of family violence (partner-child aggression, mother-child aggression, and women's intimate partner violence [IPV]) contribute to children's adjustment problems in families characterized by men's severe violence toward women. METHODS Participants were 258 children and their mothers recruited from domestic violence shelters. Mothers and...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine whether greater reliance on general memory retrieval in children was related to depression, and whether family violence affected the specificity of children's memory retrieval. METHOD We compared children who had experienced some form of family violence with children who had never experienced any form of family violence, based on their responses ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of different forms of family violence at two developmental stages by assessing a sample of 110 Israeli children, drawn from the case files of Israeli family service agencies, studied longitudinally in both middle childhood and adolescence. METHODS Information about the children's adjustment was obtained from parents, teachers, and the children themselves when...

This study evaluates the associations of young children's exposure to family violence events, parenting stress, and children's mental health functioning. Caregivers provided data for 188 children ages 3 to 5 years attending Head Start programming. Caregivers reported 75% of children had experienced at least 1 type of trauma event, and 27% of children had experienced a family violence event. Chi...

background: violence against women is one of the social difficulties all over the world that has negative effects on other health prioritization such as mothers health، family planning and mental health. the purpose of this study was determining of the prevalence rate of spouse abuse and some affecting factors among women in arak city. methods: an analytical and cross-sectional research was car...