Abstract
This study examined associations of women's alcohol use with self-reported experiences of male-perpetrated intimate partner violence among a sample of women with protective orders. Participants were 676 women with a protective order against a male intimate partner from three rural areas and one urban area. Multivariate analyses indicated that women's substance use was associated with psychological abuse tactics and severity of physical and sexual victimization in the last year of the relationship. Women's alcohol use was associated with the severity of physical violence within the last year of the relationship, whereas illegal drug use had associations with the number of verbal abuse, degradation and jealousy/control tactics. There was a significant interaction of women's alcohol and drug use with the severity of sexual assault.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1110-1128 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Substance Use and Misuse |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 8-9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:TK Logan, Ph.D., is currently a Professor in the Depart-ment of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, with joint appointments in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Social Work. Dr. Logan has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National In-stitute of Justice (NIJ) to examine victimization, mental health, and substance use among women. She has a partic-ular interest in understanding the intersection of intimate partner and sexual assault victimization, the health and mental health manifestations of victimization, help seek-ing, and the justice system response to intimate partner and sexual assault victimization. She also has a particular interest in intimate partner stalking.
Funding Information:
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides annual data on drug use in the United States. The NS-DUH is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service and a part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The survey provides yearly national and state level estimates of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drug, and non-medical-prescription drug use. Other health-related questions also appear from year to year, including questions about mental health.
Funding Information:
The research for and preparation of this article were supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Grant AA12735-01 and the University of Kentucky General Clinical Research Organization funded by the National Institute of Health Grant M01RR02602.
Keywords
- Intimate partner violence
- Protective orders
- Substance use
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Health(social science)
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Psychiatry and Mental health
