Tiara C Willie1,2, Adeya Powell2, Tamora Callands3, Heather Sipsma4, Courtney Peasant2, Urania Magriples5, Kamila Alexander6, Trace Kershaw1,2. 1. School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, P.O. Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520. 2. Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, 135 College Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT 06510-2483. 3. Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia, 300 River Road, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. 4. Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 S. Damen Avenue Rm 806, Chicago, IL 60612. 5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, PO Box 208064, New Haven, CT 06520. 6. Department of Community Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization and reproductive coercion place young women at risk for poor health. However, very few studies have examined the associations between IPV victimization and reproductive coercion among young couples nor investigated these associations longitudinally. METHOD: Data were collected during 2007-2011 from 296 pregnant adolescent and young couples enrolled in a prospective study. Couples were recruited at obstetrics and gynecology, and ultrasound clinics. RESULTS: Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, results indicate significant actor and partner effects for IPV victimization and reproductive coercion victimization. Actor's prebirth IPV victimization, and actor's and partner's reproductive coercion victimization in a past relationship related to reproductive coercion victimization in the current pregnancy. Partner's reproductive coercion victimization in the current pregnancy related to psychological IPV victimization at the six-month follow-up, but this relationship dissipated at the twelve-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: A complex, co-occurring relationship exists between IPV victimization and reproductive coercion among young pregnant and parenting couples. Young couples transitioning from pregnancy to parenthood who experience reproductive coercion may be at risk for IPV. Pregnancy and parenting programs targeting young couples should be sensitive to the relationship between IPV and reproductive coercion victimization.
OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization and reproductive coercion place young women at risk for poor health. However, very few studies have examined the associations between IPV victimization and reproductive coercion among young couples nor investigated these associations longitudinally. METHOD: Data were collected during 2007-2011 from 296 pregnant adolescent and young couples enrolled in a prospective study. Couples were recruited at obstetrics and gynecology, and ultrasound clinics. RESULTS: Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, results indicate significant actor and partner effects for IPV victimization and reproductive coercion victimization. Actor's prebirth IPV victimization, and actor's and partner's reproductive coercion victimization in a past relationship related to reproductive coercion victimization in the current pregnancy. Partner's reproductive coercion victimization in the current pregnancy related to psychological IPV victimization at the six-month follow-up, but this relationship dissipated at the twelve-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: A complex, co-occurring relationship exists between IPV victimization and reproductive coercion among young pregnant and parenting couples. Young couples transitioning from pregnancy to parenthood who experience reproductive coercion may be at risk for IPV. Pregnancy and parenting programs targeting young couples should be sensitive to the relationship between IPV and reproductive coercion victimization.
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