Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Review of the Literature

Table 1

Settings and range of IPV prevalence for reviewed studies.

Setting	Studies (𝑛=75)		Reported lifetime prevalence of IPV
	Number	%	Range (%)
Population studies	23	30.6	0.98–70.9
Domestic violence shelter^1	14	18.7	100
Community sample	13	17.3	11.4–44
Primary healthcare	10	13.3	21.3–39
Mental health setting^2	5	6.7	46.7–75.9
Emergency department	4	5.3	33.3–54
Health maintenance organisation (HMO)	2	2.7	34–46.4
Education setting	2	2.7	23–78.8
Court system	2	2.7	100

¹Includes three comparative studies that recruited a sample of abused women from domestic violence shelters and a sample of nonabused women from the general community.
²One study from each of the following settings: psychiatric inpatient, psychiatric outpatient, substance abuse clinic, university-based research clinic for mental health problems following IPV, “psychiatric patients” not specified whether inpatient or outpatient.