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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 25.
Published before final editing as: Psychol Serv. 2025 Aug 21:10.1037/ser0000990. doi: 10.1037/ser0000990

Table 2.

Associations between Clinical Characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Screening Results

Any Past Year IPV Experience Past Year Experience of Any Severe IPV (Threats/Physical/Sexual)
Variable % Positive OR (95% CI) AOR1 (95% CI) % Positive OR (95% CI) AOR1 (95% CI)
Whole Sample 7.37 --- --- 1.42 --- ---
Service Category of Assessing Provider2
 Mental health 26.36a -- -- 6.58a -- --
 Primary care 5.96b 0.19 (0.18, 0.20) 0.20 (0.20, 0.21) 0.89b 0.13 (0.12, 0.14) 0.18 (0.16, 019)
 Other 6.06b 0.19 (0.19, 0.20) 0.20 (0.20, 0.21) 1.11b 0.16 (0.15, 0.17) 0.15 (014, 0.17)
Past-Year Screens of Transdiagnostic Concerns
 Suicide Plan, Intent or, Behavior 21.72 3.54 (3.29, 3.81) 2.82 (2.62, 3.04) 8.13 6.69 (5.97, 7.49) 4.27 (3.80, 4.80)
 Heavy Drinking 13.36 2.04 (1.95, 2.13) 1.88 (1.80, 1.97) 3.17 2.53 (2.32, 2.76) 2.40 (2.19, 2.63)
Mental health diagnoses (Present vs. Absent)
 Personality disorders 17.01 2.58 (2.38, 2.80) 2.09 (1.92, 2.27) 6.87 5.46 (4.83, 6.18) 3.11 (2.74, 3.53)
 Bipolar Depression 13.37 1.96 (1.85, 2.09) 1.64 (1.54, 1.74) 4.37 3.44 (3.10, 3.82) 2.16 (1.94, 2.41)
 Major Depression 12.05 2.10 (2.04, 2.17) 1.77 (1.71, 1.82) 2.98 3.22 (3.02, 3.44) 2.04 (1.91, 2.19)
 Pervasive Dysphoric Disorders 10.83 1.51 (1.38, 1.65) 1.31 (1.20, 1.44) 2.47 1.78 (1.49, 2.14) 1.29 (1.07, 1.55)
 Other mood disorder 12.03 1.78 (1.70, 1.86) 1.54 (1.47, 1.61) 2.85 2.21 (2.02, 2.43) 1.59 (1.45, 1.75)
 Posttraumatic Stress Disorders 12.09 2.21 (2.14, 2.27) 1.87 (1.81, 1.93) 2.79 3.07 (2.87, 3.28) 2.13 (1.99, 2.29)
 Adjustment disorders 12.42 1.85 (1.77, 1.94) 1.51 (1.44, 1.58) 3.20 2.55 (2.34, 2.79) 1.74 (1.59, 1.90)
 Other Trauma 15.14 2.26 (2.11, 2.42) 1.74 (1.62, 1.86) 4.36 3.33 (2.94, 3.78) 1.89 (1.66, 2.14)
 Anxiety disorders 11.44 1.84 (1.78, 1.90) 1.50 (1.45, 1.55) 2.70 2.45 (2.29, 2.62) 1.57 (1.46, 1.69)
 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 12.30 1.73 (1.48, 2.03) 1.46 (1.25, 1.72) 2.88 2.07 (1.51, 2.83) 1.39 (1.01, 1.90)
 Substance use disorders 11.99 1.95 (1.89, 2.01) 1.82 (1.76, 1.88) 2.99 2.82 (2.64, 3.02) 2.45 (2.28, 2.63)
 Schizophrenia 8.67 1.17 (1.06, 1.29) 1.15 (1.04, 1.27) 2.80 2.03 (1.72, 2.41) 1.64 (1.38, 1.94)
History of psychiatric inpatient 13.01 1.98 (1.90, 2.07) 1.79 (1.71, 1.87) 4.01 3.48 (3.22, 3.76) 2.56 (2.36, 2.78)
Service connection2
 No SC 5.89 --- --- 1.07 --- ---
 10–50% SC 7.17 1.23 (1.18, 1.28) 1.05 (1.00, 1.09) 1.27 1.19 (1.09, 1.31) 0.95 (0.87, 1.04)
 60–100% SC 9.51 1.68 (1.62, 1.74) 1.29 (1.25, 1.34) 1.91 1.81 (1.67, 1.95) 1.16 (1.07, 1.26)

Notes. Predictors that are significant (p<.05) and have at least a small effect size (ORs>1.43 & ORs<0.70) bolded for ease of interpretation.

1

Adjusted odds ratios adjust for veteran demographics and military service characteristics including age, sex, marital status, race, ethnicity, period of service, rurality, combat status, and military sexual trauma status. Demographic controls can be found in supplemental Table S1 and S2.

2

For predictors with three or more categories (i.e., service category of assessing provider; veteran’s service connection), groups with different lettered subscripts indicate (1) the total effect was significant (p<.05) and (2) the adjusted pairwise comparisons met our effect size threshold (ORs>1.43 & ORs<0.70).