Effects of perinatal intimate partner violence and non-violent household maltreatment on infant health in urban India

Silverman, Jay G.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 1:50 PM-3:10 PM

Room 15 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Jay G. Silverman, PhD, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Authors:
Niranjan Saggurti, PhD, Population Council
Saritha Nair, PhD, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
DD Naik, MS, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
Michele R. Decker, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Julie E. Ritter, MPH, UC San Diego
Anindita Dasgupta, MPH, University of California, San Diego
Donta Balaiah, PhD, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, ICMR
Anita Raj, PhD, University of California, San Diego

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the nature of perinatal gender-based household maltreatment and its relation to IPV.
Understand how perinatal GBHM predicts poor infant health, with or without IPV.
Understand the implications of this study for both maternal and child health efforts.

Description:
The current study assesses associations of perinatal gender-based household maltreatment (GBHM), IPV and in-law violence, both alone and in combination, with major forms of infant illness in order to discern whether IPV may be a marker for the effects of GBHM household maltreatment on infant morbidity. Women (N=1108) seeking immunizations for their infants <6 months from Mumbai, India participated. One half (48.9%) reported perinatal GBHM. In adjusted models, only perinatal GBHM remained a significant predictor of infant health.