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. 2013 Aug 21;23(4):361–376. doi: 10.1017/S2045796013000450

Table 3.

Median prevalence and pooled odds of perpetrating physical violence against a partner among women with psychiatric disorder (high-quality studies only)

Past year perpetration Lifetime perpetration
Prevalence OR Prevalence OR
Disorder Median (IQR, range) Individual study estimates (where median prevalence could not be calculated) Pooled OR OR reported as increased (+), decreased (−) or no different (=) (where pooled OR could not be calculated) Median (IQR, range) Individual study estimates (where median prevalence could not be calculated) Pooled OR OR reported as increased (+), decreased (−) or no different (=) (where pooled OR could not be calculated)
No. disorder (reference group) Danielson et al. (1998) 29.3% (n = 263)
O'Leary et al. (2008) 18.1% (n = 426)
n/a n/a 7.4% (IQR 3.3–12.3%; range 2.0–15.8% n/a n/a
Bipolar affective disorder 29.5% (IQR 29–33.1%, range 28.4–36.7%) Grant 2005 (+)
Kessler et al. (1994) (=)
Kessler et al. (2005) (+)
Schizophrenia and non-affective psychosis Danielson 50.0% (n = 16)
Yang et al. (2012) 18.8% (n = 32)
Danielson et al. (1998) (=) Kessler et al. (1994) 21.0% (n = 72) Kessler et al. (1994) (=)
Depression 33.3% (IQR 26.4–42.3%, range 19.5–51.3%) Danielson et al. (1998) (+)
O'Leary et al. (2008) (=)
18.8% (IQR 14.9–23.5%; range 9.6–31.6%) 2.4 (95% CI 2.1–2.8), I2 = 67.7%
Dysthymia O'Leary et al. (2008) 13.3% (n = 15) 26.0% (IQR 20.4–31.4%, range 14.8–36.8%) 1.8 (95% CI 1.2–2.7), I2 = 51.4%
GAD Danielson et al. (1998) 42.3% (n = 130)
O'Leary et al. (2008) 18.8% (n = 16)
Danielson et al. (1998) (+)
O'Leary et al. (2008) (=)
20.7% (IQR 15.1–24.8%, range 10.2–25.3%) 2.4 (95% CI 1.9–3.0), I2 = 57.1%
PTSD O'Leary et al. (2008) 8% (n = 25) O'Leary et al. (2008) (=) Kessler et al. (1994) 22.1% (n = 85)
Kessler et al. (2005) 15.1% (n = 63)
Kessler et al. (1994) (=)
Kessler et al. (2005) (+)
Panic disorder O'Leary et al. (2008) 16.7% (n = 18) O'Leary et al. (2008) (=) 22.8%
(IQR 21.0–28.0%, range 20.0–39.5%)
1.9
95% CI 1.4–2.5), I2 = 70.5%
Social phobia O'Leary et al. (2008) 47.6% (n = 21) O'Leary 2008 (+) 22.2%
(IQR 16.7–31.7%, range 14.6–45.6%)
2.3 (2.1–2.7), I2 = 90.5%
Agoraphobia O'Leary et al. (2008) 50% (n = 2) Kessler et al. (1994) 29.7% (n = 85)
McManus (2009) 43.0% (n = 57)
Kessler et al. (1994) (+)
McManus et al. (2009) (+)
OCD McManus (2009) 36.2% (n = 49) McManus et al. (2009) (+)
Eating disorder Danielson et al. (1998) 63.6% (n = 11) Danielson et al. (1998) (+) Kessler et al. (2005) 12.5% (n = 14)

GAD, generalized anxiety disorder; OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder; OR, odds ratio; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.