Open AccessThe Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence and Association With Depression in University Students
Author(s) -
Arif Musa,
Alfonso J Valdez,
José Aguilar,
Kasim Pendi,
Kate Wolitzky-Taylor,
Danny Lee,
Joshua Lee,
David Safani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of nervous and mental disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.749
H-Index - 123
eISSN - 1539-736X
pISSN - 0022-3018
DOI - 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001255
Subject(s) - domestic violence , jealousy , depression (economics) , odds ratio , medicine , suicidal ideation , demography , confidence interval , clinical psychology , confounding , poison control , population , cross sectional study , psychiatry , psychology , injury prevention , environmental health , social psychology , pathology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among university students, investigate the potential predictors of IPV in this population, and study the link between IPV and depression. The survey included sociodemographic, relationship quality, and depression-related questions. From 498 respondents, the prevalence of IPV was 4.8%, depression was 30.9%, and suicidal ideation was 20.3%. After adjusting for covariates and confounders, relationship satisfaction (odds ratio [OR], 0.201; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.101-0.401; p < 0.001) and jealousy (OR, 0.270; 95% CI, 0.094-0.776; p = 0.015) were significant predictors of IPV. Relationship satisfaction predicted depressive disorders (OR, 0.504; 95% CI, 0.365-0.698; p < 0.001). IPV trended toward predicting the presence of a depressive disorder (OR, 0.436; 95% CI, 0.170-1.113; p = 0.083). Relationship satisfaction and jealousy predicted IPV. Although IPV did not predict depression, poor relationship satisfaction increased the odds of depression, implicating the influence of relationship satisfaction on both IPV and depression.