IPV
- noun
- Offensive
:
violencia de pareja
- Victims also face barriers to disclosing IPV to their health care providers.
- victims of IPV
- injurious IPV
- physical IPV
Examples
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Social work researchers can conduct validation studies on various IPV screening instruments for their usefulness in detecting victimization.
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As a result, our findings may represent an underreporting of the frequency or severity of IPV for this sample.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common of these types of violence.
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All of these findings confirm a need for continued exploration of IPV in midlife and in older women.
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As presented in Table 3, women who were victims of IPV reported higher frequencies of HIV risk factors than did nonvictims.
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Perhaps even more important, few studies have investigated prevalence rates of IPV in midlife and older women.
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Likewise, those organizations, as well as NASW, have called for routine screening for IPV of all women in health care settings.
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Of the 1,544 deaths attributable to IPV in 2004, 75 percent were women and 25 percent were men.
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Thirty-four participants (5.5 percent) reported being the victim of some type of IPV within the two years before the screening.
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The report highlighted that IPV affects both men and women, but women are more likely to be victims.
Synonyms
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Violent or abusive behavior at home by someone you live with
How Severe
- Offensive
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Etymology
IPV stands for intimate partner violence, with intimate meaning 'close' and violence meaning 'harm' or 'abuse'. So IPV is the term used for abuse by a current or former close partner.