Summary
The 2010 summary report titled “National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey” focused o identify various factors promoting intimate partner violence and the effects of such occurrences to the victims. The article breaks down the true burden presented intimate partner violence. Evidently, initial research on the impact of intimate partner violence reported that as the severity and frequency of violence increased, the health and well-being of the victims becomes increases in severity. However, the research considered the fact that intimate partner violence ranges from a single act of violence experienced in an isolated episode to multiple acts of violence stretched over a long period. The variation in length of time and severity presents a unique challenge – difficulty in effectively representing the nature and level of severity presented from one victim to the next in a straightforward fashion. To address this challenge effectively, the methodology in the research was designed to include questions and tools ranging on the drivers and the effects of the violence on both genders. The range and impact of intimate partner violence is effectively identified and addressed in the course of the research. Unique set of indicators and related tools were employed in measuring the impact of intimate partner violence. They were designed to not only represent, but also measure the range of direct impact experienced by varied victims of intimate partner violence. There were specific perpetrators employed in the assessment of intimate partner violence-related impact without taking into account...
However, this measurement of impact focused on the various forms presented in intimate partner violence such as physical violence, sexual violence, and stalking to control of reproductive health, coercive control, expressive aggression, and control of sexual health.
Methods and Strategies
NISVS employed a unique methodology in the assessment of the impact of intimate partner violence. The methodology sought to analyze whether the various perpetrators of intimate partner violence were concerned for safety, fearful, or had nightmares. It also extended to include their need for health attention because of the violence and the asssistance they might have receved when they contacted crisis hotline numbers. Lastly, the study sought to identify whether the victims needed any legal service, needed housing services, victim’s advocate services, or became pregnant and or contracted sexually transmitted infections from the ordeal. These questions formed an important section of the methodology as it investigated some of the factors undergirding intimate partner violence as well as the authorities and institutions that have been set to prevent and or handle cases of intimate partner violence.
Findings
The research found that close to 3 in every 10 women across the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and stalking by an individual who can be classified as an intimate partner. Moreover, they have reported at least one of the measured impacts of the violence within a relationship setting. More than one in every…
