Intimate Partner Violence and Socioeconomic Deprivation in England: Findings From a National Cross-Sectional Survey.

POVERTY areas; ASSAULT & battery; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCOME; INVECTIVE; PUBLIC housing; RESEARCH funding; SEX crimes; SEX distribution; SOCIAL classes; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; SECONDARY analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DISEASE prevalence; CROSS-sectional method; INTIMATE partner violence; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

Objectives. We examined the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its association with social deprivation in England. Methods. We used multivariable logistic regression to investigate IPV correlates among 21 226 men and women aged 16 to 59 years in the 2008 nationally representative cross-sectional British Crime Survey. Results. Lifetime IPV was reported by 23.8% of women and 11.5% of men. Physical IPV was reported by 16.8% and 7.0%, respectively; emotional-only IPV was reported by 5.8% and 4.2%, respectively. After adjustment for demographic confounders, lifetime physical IPV experienced by women was associated with social housing tenure (odds ratio [OR] = 2.3; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.0, 2.7), low household income (OR = 2.2; 95% CI = 1.8, 2.7), poor educational attainment (OR = 1.2; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.5), low social class (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 0.3, 1.7), and living in a multiply deprived area (OR = 1.4; 95% CI = 1.1, 1.7). Physical IPV experienced by men and emotional IPV experienced by either gender were generally not associated with deprivation factors. Conclusions. Physical and emotional IPV are very common among adults in England. Emotional IPV prevention policies may be appropriate across the social spectrum; those for physical IPV should be particularly accessible to disadvantaged women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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