Open AccessPredictors of assault among urban female trauma patients
Author(s) -
Usha Periyanayagam,
Aisha Shaheen,
Marie Crandall
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.102365
Subject(s) - medical emergency , medicine , psychology , demography , criminology , sociology
Assault is a common mechanism of injury among female trauma victims. This paper identifies risk factors for assault in female victims and explores the interplay between identified predictors of assault and their combined contribution to female violent victimization.