"Battered Women" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Women who are physically and mentally abused over an extended period, usually by a husband or other dominant male figure. Characteristics of the battered woman syndrome are helplessness, constant fear, and a perceived inability to escape. (From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D018585
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.975.155
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| Concept/Terms |
Battered Women- Battered Women
- Woman, Abused
- Women, Battered
- Women, Abused
- Battered Woman
- Woman, Battered
- Abused Woman
- Abused Women
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Battered Women" by people in Profiles.
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The Effects of Sexual Victimization History, Acute Alcohol Intoxication, and Level of Consensual Sex on Responses to Sexual Assault in a Hypothetical Scenario. Violence Vict. 2016; 31(5):938-956.
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Correlates of reasons for not reporting rape to police: results from a national telephone household probability sample of women with forcible or drug-or-alcohol facilitated/incapacitated rape. J Interpers Violence. 2013 Feb; 28(3):455-73.
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Is reporting of rape on the rise? A comparison of women with reported versus unreported rape experiences in the National Women's Study-Replication. J Interpers Violence. 2011 Mar; 26(4):807-32.
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Ha sentido sola? Culturally competent screening for intimate partner violence in Latina women. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2008 Mar; 17(2):261-8.
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Assault, psychiatric diagnoses, and sociodemographic variables in relation to help-seeking behavior in a national sample of women. J Trauma Stress. 2005 Apr; 18(2):97-105.
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What is violence against women: defining and measuring the problem. J Interpers Violence. 2004 Nov; 19(11):1209-34.
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How does trauma beget trauma? Cognitions about risk in women with abuse histories. Child Maltreat. 2004 Aug; 9(3):292-303.
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Ending intimate partner violence: an application of the transtheoretical model. Am J Health Behav. 2004 Mar-Apr; 28(2):122-33.
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Abused women and risk for pelvic inflammatory disease. West J Nurs Res. 2004 Mar; 26(2):176-91; discussion 192-5.