BACKGROUND: Despite World Health Organization guidelines on health service responses to @entity1004 ( @entity1004 ) against @entity1 general practitioners (GPs) often overlook the problem. Training on @entity1004 addresses GPs' barriers to asking @entity1 @entity1 about abuse and responding appropriately. One of the barriers is stereotype of @entity1 as passive victims. Little is known about coping behaviour of @entity1 @entity1 with a history of @entity1004 . OBJECTIVES: The objectives are (i) to compare problem- and emotion-focused coping used by @entity1 who have experienced @entity1004 with those who have not; (ii) to examine whether greater coping resources (health, education, employment and income) would be associated with more problem-focused coping. METHODS: The Russian Ways of Coping Questionnaire was administered to every fifth @entity1 who participated in a cross-sectional survey on @entity1004 prevalence in 24 St Petersburg general practices. Linear regression was used (n = 159) to test associations between life-time @entity1004 , coping resources and ways of coping. RESULTS: Mean problem-focused coping scores were 0.2-4.7 units higher in those @entity1 who have experienced @entity1004 compared with those who have not [95% confidence interval (CI): -4.2, 11.9; P = 0.16-0.92], while mean emotion-focused coping scores were 2.5-4.2 units higher (95% CI: -3.0, 11.0; P = 0.12-0.57). After adjustment for coping resources there was no evidence for an association between @entity1004 and problem-focused coping. CONCLUSIONS: @entity1 who have experienced @entity1004 use as much problem-focused and emotion-focused coping, as those @entity1 who have not experienced @entity1004 . These findings should be incorporated into training on @entity1004 to address GPs' stereotypes towards @entity1 who have experienced @entity1004 .

Intimate partner violence and ways of coping with stress: cross-sectional survey of female XXXX in Russian general practice.

@entity1004 :: ('MESH:C563733', 'Disease') :: ['IPV', 'intimate partner violence'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'Patients', 'woman', 'patients']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
