Male Victims of Domestic Violence
By Family Violence Prevention Fund
Nearly three in ten men experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at some point in their adult lives, and ten percent of men say they have experienced IPV in the past five years. These findings are from a new subset of data from a 2003 to 2005 Group Health Cooperative telephone survey, which also found that men who reported experiencing IPV had more emotional and mental health problems than those who did not experience violence.
Group Health Cooperative published a study in the June 2006 issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that looked at 3,429 women during the same time period, and found considerably higher prevalence of IPV. That survey found that 44 percent of women experienced intimate partner violence in their lives, and nearly 12 percent said they had experienced it in the last five years. The same study found that 14 to 53 percent of abused women experienced 20 or more incidences of violence.
Intimate partner violence is defined as actual or threatened physical, psychological and sexual violence used by an intimate partner to cause harm or trauma.
“We want to get the message out to men who do experience domestic violence that they are not alone and there are resources available to them,” one of the study’s authors, Dr. Robert J. Reid of the University of Washington in Seattle, told Reuters Health. “We still need a lot of attention on violence against women, against children, and against men, and we’re interested in stopping violence in all its forms.”
The 2008 study notes that less than one percent of men reported lifetime sexual IPV. “This result stands in stark contrast to findings from studies of women, in which sexual violence is more commonly reported and has strong associations with poor health,” the authors write.
“Intimate Partner Violence Among Men” is published in the June 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
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