Intimate Partner Violence

Intimate partner violence (IPV), also known as domestic violence or relationship violence, is “a pattern of behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control over a [current or former] partner, which can manifest in a number of ways including, but not limited to, emotional and verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, digital abuse, and stalking.” Intimate partner violence occurs among people of all ages, races, genders, and socioeconomic groups.

• Types of Abuse - The Hotline
  
• What is Intimate Partner Violence?

According to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS):

• 4.7 million women are assaulted,

• 686,000 women are raped, and

• 2.3 million women are stalked by intimate partners annually.

• In Oklahoma, 49% of women and 40% of men have experienced intimate partner violence at some time in their lives.

According to the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), among Oklahoma public high school students:

• 1 in 14 have experienced recent physical dating violence
• Approximately 7900 have recently experienced sexual dating violence

Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury is an injury to the brain from blows to the head and/or assaults that make breathing difficult (such as strangulation) during domestic violence (Center for Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury, 2022).

The head, neck, and face are the areas of the body that are most commonly targeted for physical violence by abusive partners. The head, neck, and face are the areas of the body that most commonly sustain injuries as a result of physical domestic violence.
More than 80% of domestic violence survivors surveyed reported being hit in the head, choked, or strangled.
Program: Building Capacity for Domestic Violence Victim Advocates
Why: Ensure survivors are educated about their bodies, give advocates knowledge and tools to identify potential brain injuries and better accommodate survivors with brain injuries within the programs that they are served.

• Summary of Reportable Injuries: Intimate Partner Violence in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area, 7/2000 -12/2001)
• Summary of Reportable Injuries: Intimate Partner Violence in Oklahoma (Statewide, 2002)
• Injury Updates
  • Intimate Partner Violence-related Deaths in Oklahoma
  • Dating and Sexual Violence among Oklahoma High School Students
  • High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Youth Who Experienced Rape: Findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Oklahoma, 2009-2011
  • Oklahoma Women and Sexual Violence - Beliefs, Opinions, and Victimization: Results from a Random Telephone Survey
• Fact sheets
  •  Teen Dating Violence (Print Friendly PDF) (Spanish version)
    • What You Can Do about Sexual Violence (Print Friendly PDF) (Spanish version)
    • Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence as a Health Care Provider (Print Friendly PDF) (Spanish version)
    • Teen Dating Violence Fact Sheet (2019 data) (PDF)

• Intimate Partner Violence Crisis Line Handbook
  
  • Intimate Partner Violence Crisis Line Handbook - Spanish
• Pamphlet: Are You Hiding in the Shadow of Abuse - Pamphlet for waiting areas.
• Medical Intervention focuses on medical screening and interventions for domestic violence to improve the medical response to victims of abuse including issues of screening, identification, referrals, and medical documentation.
• Lethality Assessment focuses on factors associated with intimate partner homicides and the use of lethality assessment instruments.
• Children First Domestic Violence Workshop focuses on domestic violence issues from the home visitor perspective with recommendations for nurse home visitation programs.
• Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: 22 OS§ 58
• Danger Assessment. The danger assessment is a tool to help determine the level of danger an abused woman has of being killed by her intimate partner. Training to administer the tool is available for practitioners.
• Futures Without Violence. Futures Without Violence works to prevent and end violence against women and children.
• Domestic Violence online training from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.

Mailing Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Injury Prevention Service
123 Robert S. Kerr. Ave Suite 1702
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406

Physical Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Injury Prevention Service
123 Robert S. Kerr. Ave
Oklahoma City, OK

Telephone: (405) 426-8440
Fax: (405) 900-7588