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Li M, Chang EC, Chang OD. Beyond the Role of Interpersonal Violence in Predicting Negative Affective Conditions in Adults: An Examination of Hope Components in Chinese College Students. JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE 2022; 37:2150-2164. [PMID: 32639842 DOI: 10.1177/0886260520938515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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With the growth of positive psychology during the past two decades, increased research has been focused on identifying human virtues that not only foster well-being but also act as positive processes that mitigate the impact of life adversities. Thus, it is useful to examine how positive processes, such as hope, may impact individuals' psychological adjustment following adversities. This study investigated the relationships among interpersonal violence, hope, as a key human strength, and negative affect conditions in a large sample (N = 737) of Chinese male and female (Nfemale = 409) college students. Participants completed measures assessing prior exposure to interpersonal violence, levels of both hope components (i.e., agency and pathways), negative affect, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation. Results from correlational analyses showed that exposure to interpersonal violence was positively and hope was negatively correlated with negative affective conditions. However, hope agency was more strongly correlated with those outcomes than hope pathways. In addition, three separate hierarchical regression analyses indicated that after accounting for demographics (i.e., age and sex) and interpersonal violence, within hope components, only hope agency remained as strong concurrent predictors of negative affective conditions. The present findings in this Chinese sample are consistent with those obtained from Turkey and the United States samples, adding evidence to the more robust role of hope, and hope agency in particular, in predicting negative psychological adjustment associated with interpersonal violence. Efforts made to address the absence of hope agency may be particularly important in future attempts to mitigate negative affective conditions linked to interpersonal violence among Chinese college students.
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Barroso-Corroto E, Cobo-Cuenca AI, Laredo-Aguilera JA, Santacruz-Salas E, Pozuelo-Carrascosa DP, Rodríguez-Cañamero S, Martín-Espinosa NM, Carmona-Torres JM. Dating violence, violence in social networks, anxiety and depression in nursing degree students: A cross-sectional study. J Adv Nurs 2022; 79:1451-1463. [PMID: 35128718 DOI: 10.1111/jan.15170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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AIM To determine the prevalence and risk factors for dating violence and the correlations between dating violence and violence in social networks, anxiety and depression among nursing students. DESIGN A cross-sectional and correlational study. METHODS This study was conducted with nursing degree students at Spanish university during May 2021. A total of 248 nursing students completed an online survey. The online survey included sociodemographic variables, the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory, the Social Network Violence Scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Chi-squared test, Pearson's correlation and logistic regression were used. RESULTS Of the participants, 13.3% were men and 86.7% were women. A total of 53.2% had experienced and/or perpetrated dating violence. About violence in social networks, 22.2% of the participants had perpetrated it, and 20.2% had been victims of it. Strong correlations were found between experiencing and perpetrating dating violence. Significant associated factors were cohabitation with a partner, alcohol consumption, socioeconomic status and history of dating violence. CONCLUSIONS Dating violence is a serious problem given its high prevalence among the surveyed nursing students, who, as future health professionals, must know how to recognize and react to possible cases of abuse. IMPACT The study results add to international literature that men and women university nursing students are equally susceptible to intimate partner violence and report similar prevalence of dating violence. Also, dating violence is correlated with increased levels of anxiety and depression. It seems to be necessary to implement training programmes that help minimize the problem and identify possible cases.
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- Esperanza Barroso-Corroto
- Hospital Universitario de Toledo, Toledo, Spain.,Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario de Toledo, Toledo, Spain.,Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Cuidados, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.,Facultad de Fisioterapia y Enfermería, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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Fuentes-Pumarola C, Reyes-Amargant Z, Berenguer-Simon A, Ballester-Ferrando D, Burjalés-Martí MD, Rigol-Cuadra A, Maestre-González E, Rascón-Hernán C, Galbany-Estragués P, Rodríguez-Martín D. Alcohol Use and Sexual Violence among Nursing Students in Catalonia, Spain: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph18116036. [PMID: 34199702 PMCID: PMC8200010 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18116036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 05/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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(1) Background: Sexual violence (SV) has become common in universities for reasons related to unwanted social/peer pressures regarding alcohol/drug use and sexual activities. Objectives: To identify perceptions of SV and alcohol use and estimate prevalence among nursing students in Catalonia, Spain. (2) Methods: Observational descriptive cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of nursing students attending public universities. (3) Results: We recruited 686 students (86.11% women), who reported as follows: 68.7% had consumed alcohol, 65.6% had been drunk at least once in the previous year, 62.65% had experienced blackouts and 25.55% had felt pressured to consume alcohol. Drunkenness and blackouts were related (p < 0.000). Of the 15.6% of respondents who had experienced SV, 47.7% experienced SV while under the influence of alcohol and were insufficiently alert to stop what was happening, while 3.06% reported rape. SV was more likely to be experienced by women (OR: 2.770; CI 95%: 1.229–6.242; p = 0.014), individuals reporting a drunk episode in the previous year (OR: 2.839; 95% CI: 1.551–5.197; p = 0.001) and individuals pressured to consume alcohol (OR: 2.091; 95% CI: 1.332–3.281; p = 0.001). (4) Conclusions: Nursing instructors need to raise student awareness of both the effects of alcohol use and SV, so as to equip these future health professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with SV among young people.
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- Concepció Fuentes-Pumarola
- Health and Healthcare Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (C.F.-P.); (A.B.-S.); (C.R.-H.)
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- Health and Healthcare Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (C.F.-P.); (A.B.-S.); (C.R.-H.)
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- Health and Healthcare Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (C.F.-P.); (A.B.-S.); (C.R.-H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-972-418771
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- Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Rovira and Virgili University, Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;
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- Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Perinatal Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Feixa Llarga, s/n, 08907 L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain; (A.R.-C.); (D.R.-M.)
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- Department of Fundamental Care and Medical Surgital Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Consolidated Research Group on Gender, Identity and Diversity (2017-SGR-1091), University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Health and Healthcare Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (C.F.-P.); (A.B.-S.); (C.R.-H.)
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- Research Group on Methodology, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences (M3O), Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), C. Sagrada Família, 7, 08500 Vic, Spain;
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- Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Perinatal Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Feixa Llarga, s/n, 08907 L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain; (A.R.-C.); (D.R.-M.)
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Racionero-Plaza S, Tellado I, Aguilera A, Prados M. Gender violence among youth: an effective program of preventive socialization to address a public health problem. AIMS Public Health 2021; 8:66-80. [PMID: 33575407 PMCID: PMC7870384 DOI: 10.3934/publichealth.2021005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gender violence among youth is a worldwide public health problem. Youth is increasingly exposed to violence in sexual-affective relationships, both stable and sporadic, and the age of victimization decreases. This adverse life experience affects many areas of youth's life, such as education, social relationships and, especially, their physical and mental health, with consequences that can be very harmful in the short and long-term. This situation has given rise to many anti-violence programs for adolescents and youth, yet as some worldwide prestigious organizations, like the American Psychological Association, have pointed out, many of those programs do not work. In this article, we present a program of preventive socialization of gender violence addressed to adolescents that has proven effectiveness. The program was composed of seven interventions based on the social impact of the evidence on preventive socialization of gender violence. It was applied at a group level in groups of 15-16 years old teenagers in three high schools in Barcelona. The interventions were conducted over a period of one school year and shared the trait of discussing research evidence on preventive socialization of gender violence with the youth through egalitarian dialogue. These interventions have proved to have a preventive effect of gender violence victimization on the participating teenagers by raising their critical consciousness regarding a coercive dominant discourse in society that associates attractiveness and violence, supporting the transformation of their memories of violent sexual-affective relationships, and providing them tools to better analyze their and their friends' sexual-affective relationships along the lines of identifying gender violence and being more prepared to help others in this regard. The manuscript describes every intervention applied.
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- Department of Pedagogy, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, Spain
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, Spain
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Pengpid S, Peltzer K. Associations of physical partner violence and sexual violence victimization on health risk behaviours and mental health among university students from 25 countries. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:937. [PMID: 32611321 PMCID: PMC7331220 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09064-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The study aimed to investigate the associations between physical partner violence victimization (IPV) and/or sexual violence victimization and various health risk behaviours and mental health in university students in 25 countries. METHODS Using a cross-sectional study design, 18,335 university students with a median age of 20 years from 25 countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia, replied to self-reported measures of interpersonal violence, health compromising behaviours, mental health measures and protective factors. RESULTS In adjusted logistic regression analysis, physical IPV and/or sexual violence victimization was associated, among men and/or among women, with sexual risk behaviours (multiple sexual partners, alcohol use in the context of sex, diagnosed with HIV and pregnancy), violence related behaviour (in a physical fight and carrying a weapon), poor mental health (depression, loneliness, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleeping problem and short sleep), addictive behaviour (binge drinking, tobacco and drug use), and other health risk behaviour (skipping breakfast and frequent salt intake). CONCLUSIONS We found evidence that physical IPV and/or sexual violence victimization among female and/or male university students was associated with 4 of 5 sexual risk behaviours, 2 violence related behaviours, 5 of 5 poor mental health indicators, 3 of 3 addictive behaviours and 2 of 7 other health risk behaviours.
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- Supa Pengpid
- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.,Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, Turfloop, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Evaluation of a Tool to Measure Pharmacists' Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence. PHARMACY 2018; 6:pharmacy6030066. [PMID: 30002273 PMCID: PMC6163905 DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy6030066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem that demands a comprehensive health care response. Provider education and training is needed for the entire health care team, including pharmacists, to competently care for IPV-impacted patients. Standardized assessments are needed to determine need for training and to evaluate the effectiveness of IPV training initiatives. The Physician Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence Survey (PREMIS) has previously been validated for physicians. This study adapted and evaluated the PREMIS instrument for use with pharmacists to assess knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and intentions related to IPV and IPV screening. A total of 144 surveys from community pharmacists were analyzed. Pharmacists had low levels of IPV knowledge. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a five-factor structure: workplace and self-efficacy, preparation, legal requirements, alcohol and drugs, and constraints. This instrument can be utilized to guide the development and implementation of IPV-related training initiatives for pharmacists.
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