Queering Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

An Integrative Review Recognizing Queer Women Experiences and Other Nursing Considerations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11623616
AutoresAja Nicole Toste (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada), April Mackey (0000-0002-7069-5843, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada), Pammla Petrucka (0000-0003-3174-3328, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Año2025
Volumen73
Número3
Páginas1-26
Fecha de publicación2025-04-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2025.2485151
PMID40214299
OpenAlexW4409362968
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas42

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a devastating global health issue that impacts more than 1 in 3 women within their lifetime. Health outcomes of IPV can disproportionately impact the LGBTQIA2S+ communities, specifically queer women, including increased rates of anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and disability. Risk factors for help-seeking among queer women experiencing IPV, further known as Queer Women-IPV, are complex, and encompass heteronormative and cis-normative assumptions, discrimination, isolation, and stigma within healthcare, including by nurses. Using Whittemore and Knafl's framework for an integrative review, this review identified unique characteristics of Queer Women-IPV. Furthermore, an examination of how stigma and other discriminations impact healthcare access, and recommendations for nursing professionals are provided to ensure empowering care for Queer Women-IPV survivors. Main themes from the findings included differences in Queer Women-IPV tactics and power dynamics; Queer Women-IPV risk factors; health and quality of life outcomes; as well as the influence of stigma on help-seeking behaviors. Nursing has a significant role in ensuring that queer women have safer places and people to turn to. Recommendations for nursing practice and policy include integrating trauma and violence-informed care as universal standards, offering inclusive holistic screening, and instilling LGBTQIA2S+ education for nurses

Domestic violence · Medical emergency · Poison control · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Sex work and related issues