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Multicenter Study
. 2012 Aug;33(8):513-21.
doi: 10.3109/01612840.2012.687037.

Disordered eating among African American and African Caribbean women: the influence of intimate partner violence, depression, and PTSD

Marguerite B Lucea  1 , Lucine Francis, Bushra Sabri, Jacquelyn C Campbell, Doris W Campbell
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Multicenter Study

Disordered eating among African American and African Caribbean women: the influence of intimate partner violence, depression, and PTSD

Marguerite B Lucea et al. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

We assessed the influence of intimate partner violence (IPV), depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on disordered eating patterns (DE) among women of African descent through a comparative case-control study (N = 790) in Baltimore, MD, and St. Thomas and St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, from 2009-2011. IPV, depression and PTSD were independent risk factors in the full sample. The relationship between IPV and DE was partially mediated by depression. The influence of risk for lethality from violence was fully mediated by depression. IPV should be considered in research and treatment of DE and both IPV and DE should be assessed when the other or depression is detected.

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Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

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Visual display of coefficients from mediation analysis of the effects of depressive symptomatology and PTSD on the relationship between IPV and binary outcome of disordered eating in a sample of African-American and African-Caribbean women *p<.05 **p<0.01 ^ Indirect effect = 0.13 ^^Indirect effect = 0.08
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Figure 2
Visual display of coefficients from mediation analysis of the effects of depressive symptomatology and PTSD on the relationship between risk for lethality from IPV and binary outcome of disordered eating in a sample of African-American and African-Caribbean women *p<.05 **p<0.01 ^ Indirect effect = 0.10 ^^Indirect effect = 0.05
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