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Community and primary care nursing
Women exposed to intimate partner violence may experience barriers to help-seeking at the individual, interpersonal and institutional levels
  1. Rebecca Seymour
  1. Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Seymour; seymor{at}mcmaster.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104006

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    Commentary on: Shah, A., et al. Coping Strategies and Help-Seeking Behaviors among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study of Spouses of Men with Heavy Drinking in India. Health & Social Care in the community, 2024, 6839787, https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/6839787

    Implications for practice and research

    • Intimate partner violence (IPV) has wide-reaching impacts on exposed women and their children. Understanding the needs of women exposed to IPV enhances our ability to provide adequate support and sustainable local and systemic service provisions.

    • Future research should focus on embedding the cultural context into intervention design.

    Context

    Global estimates indicate that approximately one in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV), or non-partner violence across their lifespan.1 IPV can cause significant short-term and long-term consequences on women’s mental, physical, sexual and reproductive health, as well as their children’s welfare.2 Women exposed to IPV exhibit both informal and formal …

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.