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Wife Rape in a Sample of Psychiatric Patients
Author(s) -
Weingourt Rita
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1990.tb00197.x
Subject(s) - wife , psychiatry , depression (economics) , anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , incidence (geometry) , medicine , physics , optics , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
A descriptive study of 53 ever‐married women currently being treated for primary depression or anxiety documented that wife rape is a significant negative factor in the lives of these women and is positively correlated with a history of childhood sexual abuse. The study identified the incidence of wife rape in this sample and described co‐variables of the wife rape experience. The findings from this research may be used by nurses to increase the effectiveness of their care.