Journal article
National study of physical and sexual assault among women with disabilities
Injury prevention, Vol.14(2), pp.87-90
04/2008
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2007.016451
PMID: 18388227
Abstract
Objective: To examine the association between the level of disability impairment and physical and sexual assault in a sample of US women at least 18 years of age. Design, setting and participants: Retrospective longitudinal study of 6273 non-institutionalized US women from 8000 women participating in the 1995–1996 National Violence Against Women (NVAW) Survey. Main outcome measure: Women’s experiences of physical and sexual assault in the 12 months before the NVAW interview. Results: Most women reported having no disability (n = 5008, 79.8%) and/or not experiencing an assault in the year before their interview (n = 6018, 95.9%). Less than 5% (n = 280) reported having a disability that severely limited daily activities, and 15.7% (n = 985) reported having a disability that moderately limited activities. Less than 4% (n = 218) of the women reported a physical-only assault, and less than 1% (n = 37) reported being sexually assaulted. Women with severe disability impairments were four times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women with no reported disabilities (RR = 4.0, 95% CI 1.5 to 10.6). Little difference in the risk of sexual assault was found between women with moderate disability impairments and those reporting no disabilities (RR = 1.0, 95% CI 0.3 to 2.8). Women with severe (RR = 1.6, 95% CI 0.9 to 3.0) and moderate (RR = 1.2, 95% CI 0.8 to 1.9) disability impairments were at greater risk, although not quite significantly so, of physical-only assault than were women without a disability. Conclusion: The findings suggest that women with disabilities that severely limit activities of daily living are at increased risk of sexual assault.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- National study of physical and sexual assault among women with disabilities
- Creators
- C Casteel - Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAS L Martin - Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAJ B Smith - Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAK K Gurka - Department of Public Health Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USAL L Kupper - Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Injury prevention, Vol.14(2), pp.87-90
- DOI
- 10.1136/ip.2007.016451
- PMID
- 18388227
- NLM abbreviation
- Inj Prev
- ISSN
- 1353-8047
- eISSN
- 1475-5785
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2008
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984214671602771
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