DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Question 1

Why is concussion common amoung domestic violence victims?

Answer 1

The high frequency of recurrent injuries to head and neck inflicted through abuse

Question 2

Why do victims of domestic violence not seek immediate medical care for their injuries for a number of reasons?

Answer 2

• social and financial dependence,
• control by their abuser,
• lack of insight into the severity of their injuries,
• poor decision-making abilities as a result of their multiple brain injuries.
• Fear of loss of children

Question 3

What is unique about injuries to vicitims of domestic violence?

Answer 3

• Repetive and enduring over a long period of time
• To head and face
• not reported

Question 4

Per cent of women who go to ER for injuries are are not recognized as DV victims?

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Answer 4

72%

Question 5

brain injury associations

Answer 5

Diminished cognitive abilities
(memory, attention, and concentration problems)
Psychopathology
(General Distress, depression, worry, anxiety, PTSD symptoms)

Question 6

Goal of Deschutes project?

Answer 6

Alerting battered women, professionals and the general public to potential dangers that battered women face in physically abusive realtionships

encouraging professioonals working with battered women to learn more about the potential effects of brain injury.

Question 7

What is brain damage caused by strangulation?

Answer 7

After four minutes, a brain injury is likely to occur. If strangulation lasts longer, a person can enter a coma, experience seizures, and potentially die. The technical definition of a brain injury caused by strangulation is hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, or HIBI.

Question 8

The Stories of Domestic Abuse

Answer 8

Incredibly DARK, Revealing
but Sad

Question 9

What is HBI?

Answer 9

Hypoxic Brain Injury (HBI)

Question 10

What type of Brain Injuries are IPV victimes subject to?

Answer 10

Subconcussive head trauma
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
potential Hypoxic events
Hypoxic brain injury (HBI)

Question 11

What is IPV?

Answer 11

intimate partner violence (IPV)

Question 12

Strangulation leads to what effect on the brain?

Answer 12

Reduction of Oxygen

Question 13

What methods redcue oxygen to the Brain?

Answer 13

Venous obstuction
Arterial Occlusioon
Airway collapse

Question 14

What part of the brain is impacted by hypoxia?

Answer 14

Hippocampus

Question 15

Damage to hippocampus can cause what?

Answer 15

Impairments in
Memory
Learning
Attention
Processing Speed
Excutive Function

Question 16

Risk of PTSD and mTBI co-occuring?

Answer 16

Severity of COGNATIVE symptoms
MENTAL helath
PROLONGED RECOVERY

Question 17

What is true universally true about Domestic Abuse or IPV?

Answer 17

Domestic Abuse goes UNREPORTED