DOMESTIC VIOLENCE--CHINESE WOMEN IN THE US AND IN CHINA

由于缺乏意识和文化背景，中国家庭特别容易遭受家庭暴力。 很少有研究关注中国人口、美国或中国家庭暴力的流行程度和结果。 本研究的具体目标是：1）开发一种文化上合适的工具来评估美国和中国的中国妇女遭受的家庭暴力; 2）调查、记录和比较美国和中国的中国妇女遭受家庭暴力的类型和普遍程度; 3）调查和比较美国和中国的中国妇女遭受家庭暴力的危险因素;（4）研究和比较中美两国中国妇女与家庭暴力相关的心理和身体健康结果。 为了初步开发工具，将从美国的三个亚洲妇女庇护所和中国的一个妇女联合会获得总共200名被殴打的中国妇女和与她们一起工作的工作人员的样本。 最后将在纽约唐人街的临床环境和中国福州的4家主要医院随机抽样2000名中国妇女，进行虐待流行率调查。将对两国普遍性调查中确定的至少120名受虐妇女的医疗记录进行审查。 家庭暴力筛查，这将筛选前一年的虐待和虐待的类型的一生的历史，访谈工具，将被设计和测试的可靠性和有效性之前的论文。 将使用描述性统计量和比值比来比较滥用的类型和患病率，并将使用多元逻辑回归来确定与对照组相比病例的风险因素和相关的医学状况和症状。 本拟定研究将基于申办者在该领域的既往和当前研究（病例对照研究）以及申请人在中国的初步暴力流行率研究，以调查美国和中国中国人群的家庭暴力。

Chinese families are particularly in a vulnerable position for domestic violence due to lack of awareness and cultural background. Few studies have looked at the prevalence and outcomes of domestic violence among the Chinese population, in the US or in China. The specific aims of the proposed study will focus on: 1) to develop a culturally appropriate instrument for assessing domestic violence against Chinese women in the US and in China; 2) to investigate, document and compare the type and prevalence of domestic violence in Chinese women in the US and in China; 3) to investigate and compare the risk factors for domestic violence in Chinese women in the US and in China; and 4) to examine and compare the mental and physical health outcomes associated with domestic violence in Chinese women in the US and China. For preliminary instrument development, a total sample of 200 battered Chinese women and staff working with them will be obtained from 3 Asian Women's Shelters in the US and a Women's Federation in China. A final random sample of 2000 Chinese women will be interviewed in New York Chinatown clinical settings and 4 major hospitals in Fuzhou, China for the abuse prevalence survey. Medical records will be reviewed on at least 120 battered women identified from the prevalence survey in both countries. The interview instrument for domestic violence screening, which will screen for prior year abuse and lifetime history of abuse and types of abuse, will be designed and tested for reliability and validity prior to the dissertation. Descriptive statistics and odds ratios will be used to compare types and prevalence of abuse, and multiple logistic regression will be used to determine the risk factors and associated medical conditions and symptoms for cases as compared to controls. This proposed study will build on the Sponsor's prior and current research in the area with case control studies, and the applicant's preliminary prevalence violence study in China to investigate domestic violence in Chinese population in the US and in China.