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. 2018 Jul;55(1):106-110.
doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.03.007. Epub 2018 Jun 18.

Short-term Lost Productivity per Victim: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, or Stalking

Cora Peterson  1 , Yang Liu  2 , Marcie-Jo Kresnow  2 , Curtis Florence  2 , Melissa T Merrick  2 , Sarah DeGue  2 , Colby N Lokey  2
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Short-term Lost Productivity per Victim: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, or Stalking

Cora Peterson et al. Am J Prev Med. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to estimate victims' lifetime short-term lost productivity because of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, or stalking.

Methods: U.S. nationally representative data from the 2012 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey were used to estimate a regression-adjusted average per victim (female and male) and total population number of cumulative short-term lost work and school days (or lost productivity) because of victimizations over victims' lifetimes. Victims' lost productivity was valued using a U.S. daily production estimate. Analysis was conducted in 2017.

Results: Non-institutionalized adults with some lifetime exposure to intimate partner violence, sexual violence, or stalking (n=6,718 respondents; survey-weighted n=130,795,789) reported nearly 741 million lost productive days because of victimizations by an average of 2.5 perpetrators per victim. The adjusted per victim average was 4.9 (95% CI=3.9, 5.9) days, controlling for victim, perpetrator, and violence type factors. The estimated societal cost of this short-term lost productivity was $730 per victim, or $110 billion across the lifetimes of all victims (2016 USD). Factors associated with victims having a higher number of lost days included a higher number of perpetrators and being female, as well as sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking victimization by an intimate partner perpetrator, stalking victimization by an acquaintance perpetrator, and sexual violence or stalking victimization by a family member perpetrator.

Conclusions: Short-term lost productivity represents a minimum economic valuation of the immediate negative effects of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking. Victims' lost productivity affects family members, colleagues, and employers.

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