- Title
- Long-Term Recovery from Intimate Partner Violence: Recovery and Hope
- Creator
- Carman, Mary Jean; Kay-Lambkin, Frances
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 19, Issue 21, no. 13825
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113825
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Recovery is a preferred outcome for assessing intervention effectiveness in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV), but measurement tools are in nascent form. It is therefore unclear what the recovery potential of survivors may be. A national online survey explored the self-rated recovery progress of Australian women (n = 1116), using visual analog scales (VAS) for recovery, hope, and other demographic variables. Findings show that many women rated themselves as completely recovered (14% of the eligible sample and 22% of the women who had left their partner > 10 years previously). However, most women experienced recovery as an ongoing process of healing (81%) and some women made little recovery progress (5%). Nevertheless, 77% of women who had separated >10 years ago rated their recovery as significant (scores of >70/100). Surprisingly, hope and recovery scores were only moderately correlated. This requires further investigation to determine what impacts on hope in long-term recovery, and how subjective and objective measures of hope and recovery vary in the context of IPV. The VAS was an efficient unidimensional measure for an online survey and is proposed for use in clinical and service contexts requiring subjective measures.
- Subject
- intimate partner violence; recovery; hope; gender-based violence; healing; SDG 5; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1489165
- Identifier
- uon:52636
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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