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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 5.

The impact of intimate partner violence (IPV)a severity 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 severity (n = 798)e 3.32 (2.53, 4.10) 2.57 (1.87, 3.27)
Physical IPV severity (n = 813)e 2.74 (2.06, 3.41) 1.96 (1.32, 2.60)
Psychological IPV severity (n = 815)e 2.91 (2.28, 3.54) 2.17 (1.58, 2.76)
Sexual IPV severity (n = 800)e 1.50 (0.99, 2.00) 1.06 (0.61, 1.51)

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