Recent intimate partner violence is associated with worse sexual function among women veterans
- Livingston, W. S., Blais, R. K., & Iverson, K. M. (2025). Recent intimate partner violence is associated with worse sexual function among women veterans. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001877
- This study examined whether experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) was associated with women Veterans’ sexual function. 141 women Veterans completed surveys at 4 timepoints between 2014–2021. At each timepoint, women reported how often they had experienced psychological, physical, and sexual IPV in the past 9 months. IPV reported at any of the first 3 timepoints was defined as lifetime IPV. The frequency of IPV reported at the fourth timepoint determined recent IPV. At the fourth timepoint, women also reported on 6 domains of sexual function (i.e., sexual satisfaction, arousal, orgasm, lubrication, desire, and pain). Analyses accounted for prior military sexual trauma (MST) and age. Overall, recent experiences of psychological IPV were related to worse sexual function among women Veterans.
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