Contribution of intimate partner violence exposure, other traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder to chronic pain and depressive symptoms

Natalia Tobo Medina; Gladys Eugenia Canaval Erazo; Delia Concepción Burgos Dávila; Janice Carrol Humphreys

doi:10.17533/udea.iee.9977

Authors

Natalia Tobo Medina Enfermera, Especialista en Enfermería Cardiorrespiratoria, Magíster en Enfermería, Maestría en Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación para la Atención del Adulto y el Anciano y Doctora en Psicología del Aprendizaje Humano y Psicología de la Salud. Profesora Titular de la Universidad del Valle, Colombia. email: nataliatobo@yahoo.es
Gladys Eugenia Canaval Erazo Especialista en Salud de la Mujer, Magíster en Fisiología y Doctora en Ciencias de la Enfermería. Profesora Titular de la Universidad del Valle, Colombia. email: gladys.canaval@correounivalle.edu.co.
Delia Concepción Burgos Dávila Especialista en Terapia de Pareja y Familia, Especialista en Educación Sexual y Magíster en Psicoterapia Gestalt. Profesora Auxiliar de la Universidad del Valle, Colombia. email: delia.burgos@correounivalle.edu.co.
Janice Carrol Humphreys Enfermera, Magíster y Doctora en Enfermería. Profesora de University of California at San Francisco, Estados Unidos. email: janice.humphreys@nursing.ucsf.edu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iee.9977

Keywords:

Battered women; domestic violence; violence against women; sexual violence; stress disorders, post-traumatic; pain; stress, psychological; life change events; scales.

Abstract

Objective. To assess the contribution of intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure, other traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder to chronic pain and depressive symptoms.

Methodology. Cross sectional descriptive study. 150 women with a past history of IPV who lived in the metropolitan area of the city of Cali (Colombia), and were over 18 years old participated in the study. Data were collected between June of 2009 and March of 2010. IPV, trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress, depressive symptoms and pain were measured with standard scales. Information was analyzed using regression and multiple-scale analysis.

Results. More than 50% of the women from the sample were exposed to the typical types of violence: threatening, physical and sexual violence. Usually a type of violence coexists with the other types. Depressive symptoms and chronic pain were present in 72% and 74% of the patients respectively.

Conclusion. Physical manifestations were not the ones that caused most of the effects over women’s health with IPV, but psychological manifestations as depressive symptoms and stress did. Women exposed to IPV health approach should be conducted from a multidimensional view.

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