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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2022 Sep 1;57(11):2193–2205. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02354-3

Table 3.

The impact of stressful life events at Time 1 on the severity of past year intimate partner violence (IPV)a at Time 2: results from linear GEE regressionb

Exposure Outcomes
Any IPV Severity (n = 632)c
Physical IPV Severity (n = 796)c
Psychological IPV Severity (n = 796)c
Sexual IPV Severity (n = 637)c
Unadjusted β (95% CI) Adjustedd β (95% CI) Unadjusted β (95% CI) Adjustedd β (95% CI) Unadjusted β (95% CI) Adjustedd β (95% CI) Unadjusted β (95% CI) Adjustedd β (95% CI)

Stressful life events 0.13 (0.05, 0.20) 0.10 (0.03, 0.17) 0.03 (0.00, 0.06) 0.01 (−0.02, 0.03) 0.18 (0.09, 0.26) 0.14 (0.07, 0.22) 0.19 (0.08, 0.31) 1.16 (0.06, 0.27)

Time 1 = 12 months postpartum; Time 2 = 24 months postpartum

a

Measured with the WHO Violence Against Women Instrument

b

All regressions are inverse probability weighted to account for missingness

c

Differences in sample sizes reflect utilization of the maximum amount of data per IPV type

d

Adjusting for maternal age, education, assets quintile, nuclear family structure, and depressive symptoms