Intimate partner violence in the lives of Indigenous and Black women in the upper Midwest of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods protocol examining help-seeking behaviours and experiences. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2024 Aug;33(4):1003-1012
Date
02/07/2024Pubmed ID
38323681Pubmed Central ID
PMC11260249DOI
10.1111/inm.13294Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85184670343 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)Abstract
Violent behaviour perpetrated against women has long-lasting negative physical and mental health consequences for women, their children, their families, and their communities. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with many adverse physical, psychological, and emotional consequences. Structural racism and historical trauma affect women's trust and further hinder the ability of Indigenous and Black women to seek help after experiencing IPV. The availability of IPV support services, which can include shelter, food, group therapy, legal assistance, and advocacy, can be inaccessible to women due to the inability to access often limited resources in urban environments and reasons compounded by potential geographic distance if living in rural areas or living in community. Understanding the unique reasons why Indigenous and Black women do not seek help, and the barriers they experience when seeking help after IPV, is critical. Pandemics have the potential to create further complexities on how IPV is experienced. Black and Indigenous women experiencing IPV were therefore at even greater risk for IPV-related harm because of state and local "stay at home" measures put in place to minimise the spread COVID-19. The purpose of this manuscript is to explicate the methods for a large R01 study in the Upper Midwest.
Author List
Lopez AA, Dressel A, Luebke J, Williams J, Campbell J, Miller J, Kibicho J, Schadewald D, Abusbaitan H, Pirsch A, Gondwe KW, Schubert E, Ruiz A, Kako P, Mkandawire-Valhmu L, Egede LEAuthors
Alexa Anderson PhD Associate Professor in the Nursing department at University of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeJoni Williams MD, MPH Director, Associate Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdultFemale
Help-Seeking Behavior
Humans
Indians, North American
Intimate Partner Violence
Midwestern United States
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
