Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: An Exploratory Study on Sexual Victimization Profiles Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in France.

POST-traumatic stress disorder; WOUNDS & injuries; INTIMATE partner violence; SEX crimes; TORTURE victims; CONTROL (Psychology); CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); FRENCH people; HUMAN research subjects; INTERVIEWING; QUESTIONNAIRES; MULTIPLE regression analysis; ANXIETY; DISEASE prevalence; RAPE; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CRIME victims; CHILD sexual abuse; INFORMED consent (Medical law); RESEARCH; ONE-way analysis of variance; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; MENTAL depression; ADVERSE childhood experiences

Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a common form of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study aimed to (a) identify a typology of intimate partner sexual victimization among French women victims of IPV on the basis of the frequency of various forms of sexual violence and (b) evaluate whether these profiles differ in several clinical characteristics. A total of 93 women consulting a specialized hospital service were recruited. Cluster analyses suggested four profiles: highly frequent rapes (5.4%), predominant sexual coercion (20.4%), medium frequency of all forms (20.4%), and low frequency of all forms (19.4%). Further person-centered research focusing on IPSV is warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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