Women with a disability are more prone to intimate partner related physical assaults and rapes than those without a disability, a new study has found.
Presented at the American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, the study used data collected from seven states and one territory as part of the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey.
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They found that disabled women's likelihood of experiencing some form of IPV in their lifetime was 37.3 percent, compared with the 20.6 percent likelihood of those without any disability.
The study also revealed that there were 28.5 percent chances that women with a disability would be threatened with violence, compared with 15.4 percent likelihood for their normal counterparts.
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Women with a disability were more likely to report ever experiencing unwanted sex by an intimate partner than those without a disability.
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"Furthermore, it identifies the need for comprehensive violence prevention programs that will enhance public awareness to reduce violence against women with a disability," the researcher added.
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People with mental illness smoke at 4 times the rate of the general population, says a new study from the University of Melbourne.
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