Authors
Candib, Lucy M.UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Family Medicine and Community HealthDocument Type
EditorialPublication Date
1995-05-01Keywords
AdultBattered Women
Borderline Personality Disorder
Child
Child Abuse, Sexual
Domestic Violence
Family Practice
Female
Humans
Incest
Rape
Self-Injurious Behavior
women's health
sexual abuse
physical abuse
trauma
violence
survivors
family medicine
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
Family Medicine
Women's Health
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IT CAN NO LONGER BE in doubt: a quarter of the women who physicians see every day have had some experience of sexual abuse, and fully a third have sustained physical abuse. The article by Sansone et al in this issue of the ARCHIVES confirms the commonality of past abuse experiences among middle-class women in the health maintenance organization setting. Their finding of a 25.8% rate of prior sexual abuse among women seeking Papanicolaou tests at a health maintenance organization in Tulsa, Okla, is comparable to the frequency of prior sexual abuse among women seen in family practice settings across the country. Without statistically validated instruments, the Tulsa data are not strictly comparable with other research; nevertheless, their results are consistent with the rate of prior sexual abuse of 22.1% that was found among women attending a rural clinic in Wisconsin and of 26.0% at a Michigan family . .Source
Candib LM. Moving on to strengths. Arch Fam Med. 1995 May;4(5):397-400. doi: 10.1001/archfami.4.5.397. PMID: 7742960.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/30999PubMed ID
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