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Physical and Sexual Assault of Women With Disabilities
Sandra L. Martin
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Neepa Ray
RHO Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Daniela Sotres-Alvarez
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Lawrence L. Kupper
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kathryn E. Moracco
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC
Pamela A. Dickens
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Donna Scandlin
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ziya Gizlice
State Center for Health Statistics, Raleigh, NC
North Carolina women were surveyed to examine whether womens disability status was associated with their risk of being assaulted within the past year. Womens violence experiences were classified into three groups: no violence, physical assault only (without sexual assault), and sexual assault (with or without physical assault). Multivariable analysis revealed that women with disabilities were not significantly more likely than women without disabilities to have experienced physical assault alone within the past year (odds ratio [OR] = 1.18, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] = 0.62 to 2.27); however, women with disabilities had more than 4 times the odds of experiencing sexual assault in the past year compared to women without disabilities (OR = 4.89, 95% CI = 2.21 to 10.83).
Key Words: disabilities domestic violence physical assault rape sexual assault
Violence Against Women, Vol. 12, No. 9,
823-837 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206292672

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