Disability severity and risk of new or recurrent intimate partner violence - Evidence from a cohort study in rural Pakistan.

The overall level of disability in the sample was relatively low, so findings may not generalize to people with more severe disabilities. The study focused only on married women with children in rural Pakistan, excluding unmarried women, those without children, and those in other regions or countries. Women may have underreported both disability and IPV due to social desirability or fear. The study only assessed violence perpetrated by husbands, missing abuse by other caregivers or family members. Adjusting for depression may have attenuated the observed association, as depression could be a mediator rather than just a confounder. The study did not differentiate between types of disability (e.g., physical vs. intellectual), treating them all as a single functional capacity measure.

The study received ethical approval from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and the Human Development Research Foundation. No specific funding sources or conflicts of interest declarations were provided in the text.

Do not assume this risk applies to all people with disabilities or in all settings. The study was conducted in a specific low-resource, rural South Asian context with culturally normative IPV prevalence, and the sample had relatively low overall disability severity.