Battered and pregnant: a prevalence study.
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (10) , 1337-1339
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.10.1337
Abstract
We interviewed 290 pregnant women randomly selected from public and private prenatal clinics, 80 per cent of whom were at least five months pregnant (ages 18-43, 42 per cent Latino, 22 per cent Black). Twenty-four women reported physical battering during this pregnancy (44 reported physical battering before the current pregnancy). Eight of the 24 pregnant women had sought medical treatment for injuries sustained; none reported having been assessed by prenatal care providers for abuse.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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