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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015 Nov;26(4):1286–1303. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2015.0135

Table 2.

KNOWLEDGE, PERCEIVED ACCESS AND UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES

Total Number
of Women
with Multiple
Types of IPV
(N=163)
% (N)
Women with
Multiple
Types of IPV
in Baltimore
(N=49)
% (N)
Women with
Multiple
Types of IPV
from USVI
(N=149)
% (N)
Knowledge
Knowledge of health care resources
   Health care provider 57.0 (85) 65.2 (30) 53.4 (55)
   Emergency medical services 62.4 (88) 61.4 (27) 62.9 (61)
Knowledge of any social resources
   Police 75.9 (63) 75.0 (15) 76.2 (48)
   Restraining order 66.3 (63) 63.0 (17) 67.6 (46)
   Shelter services 63.1 (89) 65.9 (27) 62.0 (62)
   Crisis hotline/ advocate/ support 65.9 (81) 72.2 (26) 63.2 (55)
   Mental health counselor/ therapist 65.0 (76) 71.9 (23) 62.4 (53)
Knowledge of religious resources 61.7 (74) 65.6 (21) 60.2 (53)
Perceived access
Perceived access to any health care resources
   Health care provider 29.4 (48) 38.8 (19) 25.4 (29)
   Emergency medical services 33.7 (55) 38.8 (19) 31.6 (36)
Perceived access to any social resources
   Police 24.5 (40) 18.4 (9) 27.2 (31)
   Restraining order 22.1 (36) 20.4 (10) 22.8 (26)
   Shelter services 33.1 (54) 34.7 (17) 32.5 (37)
   Crisis hotline/ advocate/ support 27.6 (45) 24.5 (12) 28.9 (33)
   Mental health counselor/ therapist 17.2 (28) 18.4 (9) 16.7 (19)
Perceived access to any religious resources 19.0 (31) 16.3 (8) 20.2 (23)
Utilization
Health care resource utilization
   Health care provider 8.0 (13) 6.1 (3) 8.8 (10)
   Emergency medical services 11.7 (19) 10.2 (5) 12.3 (14)
Any social resource utilization
   Police 47.9 (78) 59.2 (29) 43.0 (49)
   Restraining order 39.9 (65) 44.9 (22) 37.7 (43)
Shelter services 12.3 (20) 16.3 (8) 10.5 (12)
Crisis hotline/ advocate/ support 22.7 (37) 26.5 (13) 21.1 (24)
Mental health counselor/ therapist 28.2 (46) 34.7 (17) 25.4 (29)
Religious resource utilization 26.4 (43) 34.7 (17) 22.8 (26)

Note: The significance was tested using chi?square tests; Values in bold presents significance (i.e. < .05)