Coping with intimate partner violence: Qualitative findings from the study of dynamics of husband to wife abuse.

Introduction: Coping can be defined as an individual's efforts to manage a problem. In Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), coping depends heavily on relationship context, circumstances, and resource availability. The range of coping strategies utilized by women experiencing violence are not fully understood.

Becoming better health care providers: outcomes of a primary care service-learning project in medical school.

Medical educators have begun to embrace service-learning as a method for teaching medical students to be more socially responsible, patient-oriented practitioners. However, research documenting the learning outcomes of service-learning in medical education is limited. In this paper, written documents generated through evaluation of a mandatory, structured community service-learning experience were analyzed qualitatively to discover the diverse learning outcomes among 24 students who participated in the experience.

Multiethnic perspectives on elder mistreatment.

Purpose: We conducted this study to understand the interpretations of elder mistreatment (EM) in multiethnic older adults.

Design And Methods: Focus group sessions were held with three ethnically homogenous groups (n = 18) and a group of elder care professionals (n = 6) eliciting responses to vignettes depicting various types of elder mistreatment. Qualitative analysis of focus group transcripts was performed to define EM occurrence, its severity, and to identify the perpetrator and victim.

Prevalence and 3-year incidence of abuse among postmenopausal women.

Objectives: We examined prevalence, 3-year incidence, and predictors of physical and verbal abuse among postmenopausal women.

Methods: We used a cohort of 91,749 women aged 50 to 79 years from the Women's Health Initiative. Outcomes included self-reported physical abuse and verbal abuse.