BMJ  2004;328 (13 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7440.0-e

Abuse from a partner may contribute to depression

Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse are associated with depression in women. Hegarty and colleagues (p 621) interviewed 1257 women from Australia who were attending 30 general practice surgeries in Victoria. They found that 18% were currently depressed, and 24% had experienced some type of abuse in an adult intimate relationship. Depressed women were more likely to have experienced some form of abuse as a child, and to have experienced partner abuse, than women who were not depressed. Doctors should consider the role of past or current violence and abuse in their depressed women patients, the authors say.

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