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Title: Exploring the bidirectional pathway between intimate partner violence and depression from a cluster randomized trial
Authors: Nada Abdelatif - South African Medical Research Council (South Africa) [presenting]
Enat Chirwa - South African Medical Research Council (South Africa)
Andrew Gibbs - University College London (United Kingdom)
Samuel Manda - University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) predominately affects women and involves physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse by an intimate partner. IPV affects women of different cultures, cuts across geographical boundaries and settings, with approximately one-third of women worldwide having experienced at least one form of violence. Furthermore, it has been shown that there is a strong association between IPV and mental health, such as depression and depressive symptoms. Women who experience IPV are at higher risk of experiencing PTSD, anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation; but it has also been shown that those with depressive symptoms are at greater risk of being victims of IPV. To explore this bi-directional relationship between IPV and depression, women's experience of IPV and depression will be analyzed from a longitudinal cluster randomized trial conducted in South Africa. This will be done using longitudinal structural equation modeling. This will allow us to explore the reciprocal relationship between IPV and depression. The consistency of the model will then be tested in the men's cohort, by looking at men's perpetration of IPV and depression, and seeing whether the theoretical model can be compared between women and men.
