Police reports on domestic incidents involving intimate partners: Injuries and medical help-seeking

Mary M. Duncan; Catherine D. Stayton; Charles B. Hall

doi:10.1300/J013v30n01_01

Police reports on domestic incidents involving intimate partners: Injuries and medical help-seeking

Mary M. Duncan, Catherine D. Stayton, Charles B. Hall

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Abstract

This study aims to expand knowledge of partner abuse injury and help-seeking through a new source of data. We reviewed police reports during corresponding periods in 1996 and 1997 (n = 476). Complainants were injured in 17.4% of all incidents; 90% of those injured were women. Hispanics were more likely to be injured than non-Hispanics (OR = 2.06; 95% CI = 1.0, 4.25). The likelihood of injury decreased with each year of increasing age (OR = 0.95; CI = 0.91, 0.99). Only 20.5% of those injured consented to medical care. Police reports provide information on partner abuse injury that supplements hospital surveillance and household surveys.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Women and Health
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1300/J013v30n01_01
State	Published - Jan 1 2000
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Domestic violence
Injury
Patient acceptance of health care
Police
Spouse abuse

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Medicine(all)

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