Acculturation and Reported Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinas in Los Angeles

Autor/inn/en	Garcia, Lorena; Hurwitz, Eric L.; Kraus, Jess F.
Titel	Acculturation and Reported Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinas in Los Angeles
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20 (2005) 5, S.569-590 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260504271582
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Incidence; Acculturation; Public Health; Clinics; Family Violence; Hispanic Americans; Surveys; Females; Cultural Awareness; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Vorkommen; Akkulturation; Gesundheitswesen; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität
Abstract	This study sought to understand the relationship between acculturation and reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) among Latinas. A cross-sectional interviewer-administered survey was conducted at public health care clinics throughout Los Angeles County. Logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of acculturation on reporting IPV. An increasing trend of reporting IPV was observed among Latinas who were more acculturated (chi-square = 41.02, p = .0006). Highly acculturated Latinas were more likely to report IPV compared with least acculturated Latinas (prevalence odds ration = 2.18, 95% confidence level = 0.98, 4.89) and moderately acculturated Latinas were more likely to report IPV compared with least acculturated Latinas (prevalence odds ration = 1.29, 95% confidence level = 0.69, 2.43). Culturally competent IPV prevention programs may be the key to significantly reducing the number of women exposed to this serious public health problem. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10