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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is ordinarily defined as violence or abuse that is physical, sexual, or emotional/psychological. Researchers in South Africa examined how these IPV types, along with economic IPV, might affect mental health.
In a community-based study, 680 women (mean age, 24) living in impoverished areas, completed a series of structured questionnaires assessing depression, suicidal ideation, and frequency of IPV. Close to half of the women scored in the clinically relevant range for past-week depression; almost one third reported suicidal ideation in the previous month. Sizable percentages of women reported ≥2 episodes of each type of IPV in the previous year:
Emotional IPV (insults, humiliation; threats to harm, scaring, hur…