Introduction
Little is known about intimate partner violence-related fatalities among young people.
This study comprehensively identifies and describes intimate partner violence-related
homicides, homicide–suicides, legal intervention deaths, and suicides among young
people.
Methods
Data from the 2014–2018 National Violent Death Reporting System were analyzed for
all decedents aged 0–24 years in 38 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
with known circumstances of death (n=29,702). Intimate partner violence-related deaths were identified using National
Violent Death Reporting System variables across all manners of death and supplementary
narrative review for suicides. This article reports the proportion of intimate partner
violence versus non–intimate partner violence-related deaths by manner of death, descriptive
statistics, and rate of intimate partner violence-related death per 100,000 person
years. To examine disparities in intimate partner violence-related deaths, generalized
estimating equations were used with robust standard errors to account for clustering
of deaths within states and fixed effects for years. Statistical analyses were conducted
May and August 2021.
Results
A total of 1,927 intimate partner violence-related deaths were identified, which represents
6.5% of violent deaths with known circumstances, at a rate of 0.35 per 100,000 person
years. Supplementary narrative review identified 44.7% of all intimate partner violence-related
deaths. There were significant differences by race/ethnicity and whether a firearm
inflicted the fatal injury for male and female decedents by manner of death.
Conclusions
If the National Violent Death Reporting System does not assess whether intimate partner
violence was a precipitating factor across all death manners, the true magnitude of
intimate partner violence's contribution to violent death will be underestimated.
Future research that identifies factors associated with all manners of intimate partner
violence-related deaths among young people will help inform intervention and prevention
strategies to save young lives.
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