Consequences of child emotional abuse, emotional neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence for eating disorders: a systematic critical review

Table 4 Sources focusing on childhood exposure to intimate partner violence

Author, Country	Design (cross-sectional, longitudinal)	Sample Type (college, community, primary care, tertiary psychiatric care)	Sample Size (n)	Sample Characteristics • % Women • % Ethnic-minority • % Immigrant	Age Range (years)	Strength of Correlation for child exposure to IPV
Eating Disorders
Afifi et al. [52], Canada	cross-sectional	community	n = 23, 395	• Unclear • 16% • 18%^a	18 and over	0.26–0.50^bd**
Eating-Disordered Behavior
Gentile et al. [42], USA*	cross-sectional	college	n = 884	• 56% • 80.7% • 71.7%	18 to 40	0.11–0.25^bf
van der Kolk et al. [31], USA	longitudinal	Community, tertiary psychiatric care, primary health care	n = 74	• 52.7% • Unclear • Unclear	18 to 39	0.01–0.10^bcef 0.11–0.25^bef

^* Country of data collection not articulated. Assumption of country location was made given language used to describe participants (e.g. African American) or based upon identification of the location of the study’s Institutional Review Board
^** Authors reported at least one bivariate correlation estimate to be significant at p < .05
^aProportion of respondents indicating they were born outside of Canada
^bEstimate falls within this range among men and women
^cBased on follow-up data for longitudinal study
^dEstimate computed through converting odds ratio for AOR1in Afifi et al. (2014) to Pearson correlation coefficient
^e Based on baseline data for longitudinal study
^f Estimate reported was non-significant

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