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Violence and Women's Health. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Dec 2008, Pages: 176
Mental and reproductive health consequences of
violence victimization have been reported in various
female populations, however these associations have
not been tested among internally displaced persons
(IDP’s), who show elevated rates of
psychiatric and reproductive health abnormalities.
This dissertation examined associations between
violence victimization, individual symptoms of
depression, and simple reproductive health
attributes using data from two samples of women:
those displaced by the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricane
season living in FEMA trailer parks in the United
States, and those displaced by human conflict living
in internal displacement camps in Darfur, Sudan
(2005). This study demonstrates that there are clear
associations between violence victimization and
mental and reproductive health among female IDP’s.
The models developed in this study can be used to
predict the prevalence of lifetime victimization in
IDP populations where screening is not
possible. The results may be useful to practitioners
and researchers working with female IDP’s when
direct screening is not possible.
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