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Intimate partner violence during pregnancy

Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Risk Factors [2011]

Australia

• Queensland Health
  • Antenatal screening for domestic and family violence guideline

Benin

• BMC Public Health
  • Exploring antenatal care utilization and intimate partner violence in Benin - are lives at stake? [2021]

China

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]

East Africa

• BMC Women's Health
  • Neonatal, infant, and child mortality among women exposed to intimate partner violence in East Africa: a multi-country analysis [2020]

Ethiopia

• BioMed Research International
  • Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal exposure to intimate partner violence and uptake of maternal healthcare services in Ethiopia: Evidence from a national survey [2022]
  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Ghana, Nigeria

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence and determinants of intimate partner violence in pregnancy: a multicentre, binational study [2025]

High-income countries

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Cultural Sensitivity in Interventions Aiming to Reduce or Prevent Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Scoping Review [2023]

International

• Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among Intimate Partners During the Perinatal Period: A Narrative Literature Review [2021]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Worldwide Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy: An Umbrella Review [2021]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Health-Related Maternal Decision-Making Among Perinatal Women in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review [2024]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period [2024]

Low and middle income countries

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy and maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review of the literature from low-and-middle income countries from 2016 - 2021 [2022]

• BMC Public Health
  • Help-seeking behaviors among survivors of intimate partner violence during pregnancy in 54 low- and middle-income countries: evidence from Demographic and Health Survey data [2025]
  • Intimate partner violence and maternal health services utilization: evidence from 36 National Household Surveys [2021]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Interventions for reducing and/or controlling domestic violence among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2019]

Nigeria

• African Health Sciences
  • Spousal violence and pregnancy termination among married women in Nigeria [2016]

Pakistan

• BMC Women's Health
  • Exclusive breastfeeding and its association with intimate partner violence during pregnancy: analysis from Pakistan demographic and health survey [2024]

South Asia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Women's attitude towards intimate partner violence and utilization of contraceptive methods and maternal health care services: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional surveys from four South Asian countries [2022]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • A systematic review of the effects of intimate partner violence on HIV-positive pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Domestic violence and associated factors among pregnant women in sub-Saharan African countries from the recent demographic and health survey data: a multilevel analysis [2024]

• Women's Health
  • Prevalence and determinants of intimate partner sexual violence among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the most recent DHS data 2015-2022 [2024]

Sweden

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a longitudinal cohort study in the south of Sweden [2016]

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy - Prevalence and associations with women's health: A cross-sectional study [2023]

Taiwan

• BMC Women's Health
  • Associations between domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in taiwanese women: a nested case-control study [2023]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • A survey and stakeholder consultation of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) programmes in English maternity services [2023]

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Partner violence (pregnancy)

United States

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Trends in Pregnancy-Associated Homicide, United States, 2020 [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Intimate Partner Violence and Pregnancy and Infant Health Outcomes — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, Nine U.S. Jurisdictions, 2016–2022 [2024]

• JAMA Network Open
  • State Divorce Laws, Reproductive Care Policies, and Pregnancy-Associated Homicide Rates, 2018-2021 [2024]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: information sheet [2011]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Violence against women, gender-based violence
  • Violence
  • Obstetric violence, mistreatment of women during childbirth
  • Domestic violence, intimate partner violence