Posts Tagged ‘intimate partner violence’

Adults who had Stress in Childhood (4)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The long-term effects of childhood stress impact relationships and mood in adults.  The study* described in the last post surveyed 380 women who came to a general medical clinic.  In addition to questions about abuse in childhood, patients were surveyed about whether they had ever experienced intimate-partner violence (IPV) and also about depression.  (The vast majority of those who had experienced IPV were no longer in an abusive relationship.)

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