Table 1. Peer-reviewed journal articles summarizing the literature on intimate partner violence and mental health.

Author	Sample	Design	Exposure	Outcome	Findings
Golding [8]	Womena	36 cross-sectional studies	Physical violence by men against women	Depressionb, suicidality, post-traumatic stress, substance use	Greater prevalence of outcomes among victims of violence
Beydoun and colleagues [9]	Women	32 cross-sectional and 5 longitudinal studies	IPVc	Any author definition of depression	Pooled RRs of outcomes ranged from 1.43–1.81, depending on study design and outcome; pooled RR for major depressive disorder was 2.70
Trevillion and colleagues [10]	Womena or mend	38 cross-sectional and 3 longitudinal studiese	Lifetime or past-year violence or abuse by any intimate contactc	Mental disorders as assessed with diagnostic instruments	Pooled ORs for depressive, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders among women ranged from 2.29 to 7.34; insufficient data to estimate pooled ORs for longitudinal studies
Devries and colleagues [4]	Womena or mend	16 longitudinal studies	IPVc	Any author definition of depression or suicide attempts	Pooled OR for incident depression among women was 1.97 (six studies), while pooled OR for incident IPV among women was 1.93 (four studies)

^aExcluded studies that assessed outcomes among women solely during the perinatal period.

^bTerm used (both here and throughout the article) to refer broadly to either formal diagnoses of depressive disorders or elevated symptoms of depression.

^cIncluded psychological abuse or emotional violence.

^dInsufficient data to calculate pooled estimates among men.

^eExplicitly specified absence of a language restriction.

IPV, intimate partner violence; OR, odds ratio; RR, relative risk.