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Interpersonal Violence and Women With Disabilities

Analysis of Safety Promoting Behaviors

Laurie E. Powers

Portland State University

Paula Renker

The Ohio State University College of Nursing

Susan Robinson-Whelen

Baylor College of Medicine

Mary Oschwald

Portland State University

Rosemary Hughes

University of Montana

Paul Swank

University of Texas

Mary Ann Curry

Oregon Health & Science University

Very little information exists related to the interpersonal violence safety promoting behaviors of women with disabilities. Information about women’s use of safety promoting behaviors was gathered from 305 disabled and deaf women who completed an anonymous Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interview. Exploratory factor analyses revealed factors related to seeking abuse-related safety information, building abuse-related safety promoting skills, using relationship support, planning for emergencies, taking legal action, and managing safety in personal assistance relationships. Four of these factors demonstrated significant relationships to women’s experience of different forms of abuse and their perpetrator’s characteristics.

Key Words: abuse • disability • measurement • safety • violence • women

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Violence Against Women, Vol. 15, No. 9, 1040-1069 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801209340309
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