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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 4.

The impact of intimate partner violence (IPV)a on perceived stress at Time 2: results from linear GEE regressionb

Exposures Outcome: perceived stressc
Unadjusted β (95% CI) Adjustedd β (95% CI)

Any IPV (n = 807)e 4.65 (3.47, 5.83) 3.43 (2.33, 4.52)
Physical IPV (n = 815)e 7.48 (5.49, 9.48) 4.93 (3.02, 6.85)
Psychological IPV (n = 815)e 4.56 (3.35, 5.76) 3.24 (2.13, 4.35)
Sexual IPV (n = 800)e 4.13 (2.72, 5.53) 2.78 (1.51, 4.05)

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

Measured with the Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (0–40)

d

Adjusting for stressful life events at Time 1, maternal age, education, assets, nuclear family structure, and depressive symptoms

e

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