Effects of domestic violence on perinatal and early-childhood mortality: evidence from north India.

OBJECTIVE: We examined the effect of physical violence during pregnancy on perinatal and early-childhood mortality. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy among a population-based sample of 2199 women in Uttar Pradesh, India. We used a survival regression model to...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Public Health Vol. 96; no. 8; pp. 1423 - 1429
Autores principales: Ahmed S, Koenig MA, Stephenson R
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Publicado: American Public Health Association Aug2006
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          Ahmed S
          Koenig MA
          Stephenson R
        affil: Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. sahmed@jhsph.edu
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          Domestic Violence Complications
          Domestic Violence Epidemiology
          Infant Mortality Epidemiology
          Infant Mortality Risk Factors
          Maternal Exposure
          Pregnancy Complications
          Adult
          Chi Square Test
          Child Health
          Child Mortality
          Confidence Intervals
          Cox Proportional Hazards Model
          Data Analysis Software
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Funding Source
          Incidence
          India
          Infant, Newborn
          Interviews
          Kaplan-Meier Estimator
          Life Table Method
          Log-Rank Test
          Logistic Regression
          Male
          Middle Age
          Mortality
          Multi-Stage Cluster
          Perinatal Death
          Pregnancy
          Self Report
          Spouses
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          Survival Analysis
          Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
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      ab: OBJECTIVE: We examined the effect of physical violence during pregnancy on perinatal and early-childhood mortality. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy among a population-based sample of 2199 women in Uttar Pradesh, India. We used a survival regression model to examine the risks for perinatal, neonatal, postneonatal, and early-childhood (aged 1-3 years) mortality by mother's exposure to domestic violence, after we controlled for other sociodemographic and maternal health behavior risk factors. RESULTS: Eighteen percent of the women in our study experienced domestic violence during their last pregnancy. After we adjusted for other risk factors, births among mothers who had experienced domestic violence had risks for perinatal and neonatal mortality that were 2.59 (95% confidence interval [CI]=1.35, 4.95) and 2.37 (95% CI=1.21, 4.62) times higher, respectively, than births among mothers who had not experienced violence. We found no significant associations between domestic violence and either postneonatal or early-childhood mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Domestic violence is a significant risk factor for perinatal and neonatal mortality.
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