http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Teens in a relationship that involves dating violence are likely to be both a victim and perpetrator, as opposed to being just one or the other, finds a recent study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. In some situations teens play both roles with one partner or they'll play one role in a given relationship and then another role in a subsequent relationship. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-teens-sides-dating-violence.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 May 2013 07:48:58 EST news287822900 (HealthDay)—When teens start dating, parents' worries grow—and experts say that dating violence should be on their list of concerns. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-teen-dating-abusive-violent.html Pediatrics Fri, 10 May 2013 12:46:19 EST news287408770 Not only are women who have experienced violence from their partner (intimate partner violence) at higher risk of becoming depressed, but women who are depressed may also be at increased risk of experiencing intimate partner violence, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-link-intimate-partner-violence-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 May 2013 17:00:11 EST news287160138 A world first trial has found intervention by general practitioners (GPs) in cases of domestic violence made impacts on women's symptoms of depression but not their quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-local-gp-intervention-positive-women.html Health Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:30:28 EST news285489022 New research published Online First in The Lancet confirms that routine intimate partner violence screening and counselling in primary-care settings does not improve women's quality of life, but does help reduce depressive symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-routine-screening-partner-violence-health-care.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:06 EST news285245904 Teens today are involved in intimate relationships at a much younger age and often have different definitions of what is acceptable behavior in a relationship. Violence is something that is all too common and according to researchers at Iowa State it is a reflection of the relationships teens have with their parents or their parent's partner. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-parent-child-violence-teen-dating.html Health Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:18:37 EST news283511910 Only about one in five central Pennsylvania women who have experienced intimate partner violence is asked or counseled by a health care provider about abuse, according to Penn State medicine and public health science researchers. Overall, approximately only one in nine women has received preventive counseling about violence and safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-partner-abuse-women-insufficient.html Health Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:40:01 EST news281971549 Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-child-marriages-day.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:14:49 EST news281884481 (HealthDay)—Children of parents reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) and depressive symptoms within the first three years of a child's life are significantly more likely to have a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to a study published online Feb. 4 in JAMA Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-battered-parents-adhd.html Attention deficit disorders Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:10:01 EST news279292435 A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows evidence that certain forms of abuse negatively influence women cancer patients' quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-uk-abuse-affect-cancer-related-well-being.html Cancer Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:50:28 EST news278347818 (HealthDay)—Bisexual women in the United States are more likely to suffer from domestic violence than either lesbian or heterosexual women, a new government report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bisexual-women-high-sexual-violence.html Health Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:10:01 EST news278341778 (HealthDay)—Physicians should screen all women of childbearing age for signs of domestic violence and refer them for treatment if necessary, a new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-task-urges-routine-screening-women.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:18:39 EST news278011108 In a perspective article to appear in the Nov. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM and BUSPH) report that health-care providers can play a critical role in helping to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by screening and referring patients to appropriate resources. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-health-care-critical-role-intimate-partner.html Health Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:43 EST news273343824 (Medical Xpress)— Mothers who experience economic and psychological abuse during the first year of a relationship with their child's father are more likely to become depressed and spank the child in year five, researchers from the Rutgers School of Social Work have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-economic-abuse-affects-maternal-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:23:08 EST news268474982 A new UH experiment takes an unconventional look at the treatment for domestic violence, otherwise known as intimate partner violence (IPV), by focusing on changing the perpetrators' psychological abuse during arguments rather than addressing his sexist beliefs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-university-houston-focuses-treatment-perpetrator.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:40:57 EST news262924837 A Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that emergency department patients prefer technology-based interventions for high-risk behaviors such as alcohol use, unsafe sex and violence. ER patients said they would choose technology (ie text messaging, email, or Internet) over traditional intervention methods such as in-person or brochure-based behavioral interventions. The paper by Megan L. Ranney, M.D., is available now online in advance of print in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-emergency-patients-technology-based-interventions-behavioral.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:07:12 EST news261662821 (HealthDay) -- Screening instruments can be used in the health care setting to accurately identify women who are experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), with minimal adverse effects, according to a review published online May 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-screening-intimate-partner-violence-beneficial.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 04:50:02 EST news255670337 Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University (WVU-ICRC) have found that intimate partner violence resulted in 142 homicides among women at work in the U.S. from 2003 to 2008, a figure which represents 22 percent of the 648 workplace homicides among women during the period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-role-intimate-partner-violence-workplace.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 09:07:57 EST news255600340 A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and RTI International finds employee assistance programs (EAPs), a standard benefit offered to employees at most large companies, are failing to identify individuals who abuse or have the potential to abuse their intimate partner, despite well-known risk factors for intimate partner violence perpetration. While previous research has documented the extent to which EAPs offer workplace support for victims of intimate partner violence, this is the first study to examine the involvement of EAPs in screening and offering treatment to persons who perpetrate violence against their partners. The report is published in the current issue of Violence and Victims. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-employee-lack-comprehensive-approach-intimate.html Health Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:19:40 EST news253887487 Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women. Scientists have known for years that traumatized women are at greater risk of becoming infected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-trauma-hiv-epidemic-women.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:00:01 EST news251396763 Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to heavy drinking, substance use by one or both partners, and living in a neighborhood characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Alcohol outlet density has been linked to assaultive violence in a community. A study of the association between alcohol outlet densities and IPV-related visits to the Emergency Department (ED) throughout California between July 2005 and December 2008 has found that density of bars is associated with IPV-related ED visits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-neighborhood-bar-density-linked-intimate.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:13 EST news248543166 Children who display multiple psychosomatic symptoms, such as regular aches and pains and sleep and appetite problems, are more than twice as likely to be experiencing physical abuse at home than children who do not display symptoms, according to a study in the March edition of Acta Paediatrica. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-physically-abused-children-higher-psychosomatic.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:28:11 EST news248005679 A new position statement issued by the American Academy of Neurology calls on neurologists to begin screening their patients for abusive or violent treatment by family, caretakers or others. The position statement is published in the January 25, 2012, online issue of Neurology.. Types of abuse include elder abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse, bullying, cyberbullying and violence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-neurologists-patients-abuse.html Neuroscience Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:06 EST news246710838 (AP) -- It's a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-survey-women-victims-severe-violence.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:17:12 EST news243101821 Forty percent of women who report depressive symptoms following birth also reported intimate partner violence finds a new study published today (7 December) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-depressive-symptoms-intimate-partner-violence.html Health Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:51:44 EST news242455895 Victims who suffer violence at the hands of a spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, or other intimate partner aren't only brutalized physically; they also suffer disproportionately higher rates of mental health distress, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-partner-violence-impacts-mental-health.html Health Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:09:33 EST news233932160 Women who reported experiencing gender-based violence, such as rape, sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking, had an associated higher lifetime prevalence of mental health disorders, dysfunction and disability, according to a study in the August 3 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-women-gender-based-violence-higher-incidence.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:30:10 EST news231521373 Latinas who endure violence at the hands of a partner during or within a year of pregnancy are five times more likely to suffer postpartum depression than women who have not experienced such violence, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-latinas-victimized-domestic-violence-likelier.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 May 2011 09:30:28 EST news223806598