TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating Peril
T2 - The Lived Experience of Rural, Low-Income Women Exposed to IPV During Pregnancy and Postpartum
AU - Burnett, Camille
AU - Schminkey, Donna
AU - Milburn, Juliane
AU - Kastello, Jennifer
AU - Bullock, Linda
AU - Campbell, Jacquelyn
AU - Sharps, Phyllis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - This qualitative study of 10 rural women examines their lived experience of intimate partner violence during pregnancy and the first 2 postpartum years. In-depth interviews occurred during pregnancy and 4 times postpartum. A Heideggerian approach revealed “negotiating peril” as the overarching theme; sub-themes were unstable environment, adaptive calibration, primacy of motherhood, and numb acceptance. Some incremental shifts in severity of abusive situations were observed. Results elucidate the ambivalence with which these women view institutions that are designed to help them. Findings highlight factors that may explain why interventions designed to help often do not appear efficacious in facilitating complete termination of an abusive situation.
AB - This qualitative study of 10 rural women examines their lived experience of intimate partner violence during pregnancy and the first 2 postpartum years. In-depth interviews occurred during pregnancy and 4 times postpartum. A Heideggerian approach revealed “negotiating peril” as the overarching theme; sub-themes were unstable environment, adaptive calibration, primacy of motherhood, and numb acceptance. Some incremental shifts in severity of abusive situations were observed. Results elucidate the ambivalence with which these women view institutions that are designed to help them. Findings highlight factors that may explain why interventions designed to help often do not appear efficacious in facilitating complete termination of an abusive situation.
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - pregnancy
KW - rural women
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U2 - 10.1177/1077801215614972
DO - 10.1177/1077801215614972
M3 - Article
C2 - 26612275
AN - SCOPUS:84974574886
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 22
SP - 943
EP - 965
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 8
ER -
