A study published in BMCPublicHealth finds that working from home during COVID-19 was associated with higher intimate partner violence among cis-gender women. Workplaces offering working from home should collaborate with support services to prevent this.
Study design and data sources
Stringency of restriction policies experienced was measured using data on country-level pandemic responses, obtained from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker []. This open access dataset contains a daily updated index scoring the stringency of containment policies in each country. The index summarises school, workplace and travel closures, stay-at-home rules and health information campaigns.
Demographic variables included as potential confounders were age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, educational attainment, marital status, motherhood, and urban location. Other variables that were tested as confounders included experiences prior to the pandemic relating to employment and participation in transactional sex, alcohol and cannabis use, household income, and prior experience of IPV.
A minimally adjusted model was fitted , only adjusting for country as a fixed effect and excluding those with missing data on variables in Model 2 to make unbiased comparisons .
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