Department of Rehabilitation & Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ, 07107, USA.
Department of Health Informatics, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ, 07107, USA.
Brain Imaging Behav. 2021 Apr;15(2):475-503. doi: 10.1007/s11682-020-00417-0. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
Intimate partner violence includes psychological aggression, physical violence, sexual violence, and stalking from a current or former intimate partner. Past research suggests that exposure to intimate partner violence can impact cognitive and psychological functioning, as well as neurological outcomes. These seem to be compounded in those who suffer a brain injury as a result of trauma to the head, neck or body due to physical and/or sexual violence. However, our understanding of the neurobehavioral and neurobiological effects of head trauma in this population is limited due to factors including difficulty in accessing/recruiting participants, heterogeneity of samples, and premorbid and comorbid factors that impact outcomes. Thus, the goal of the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium Intimate Partner Violence Working Group is to develop a global collaboration that includes researchers, clinicians, and other key community stakeholders. Participation in the working group can include collecting harmonized data, providing data for meta- and mega-analysis across sites, or stakeholder insight on key clinical research questions, promoting safety, participant recruitment and referral to support services. Further, to facilitate the mega-analysis of data across sites within the working group, we provide suggestions for behavioral surveys, cognitive tests, neuroimaging parameters, and genetics that could be used by investigators in the early stages of study design. We anticipate that the harmonization of measures across sites within the working group prior to data collection could increase the statistical power in characterizing how intimate partner violence-related head trauma impacts long-term physical, cognitive, and psychological health.
亲密伴侣暴力包括来自当前或前任亲密伴侣的心理攻击、身体暴力、性暴力和跟踪。过去的研究表明，亲密伴侣暴力的暴露会影响认知和心理功能，以及神经学结果。对于那些由于头部、颈部或身体的物理和/或性暴力而导致头部受伤的人来说，这些影响似乎更为严重。然而，由于参与者难以接触/招募、样本异质性以及影响结果的潜在和共病因素等因素，我们对这一人群中头部创伤的神经行为和神经生物学影响的理解有限。因此，增强通过荟萃分析进行神经影像学遗传学研究（ENIGMA）联盟亲密伴侣暴力工作组的目标是建立一个全球性的合作，包括研究人员、临床医生和其他关键社区利益相关者。参与工作组可以包括收集协调一致的数据，为各地点的荟萃分析和大型分析提供数据，或就关键临床研究问题提供利益相关者的见解，促进安全、参与者招募和转介至支持服务。此外，为了促进工作组内各地点之间的数据大型分析，我们提供了行为调查、认知测试、神经影像学参数和遗传学的建议，供研究人员在研究设计的早期阶段使用。我们预计，在数据收集之前，工作组内各地点的措施协调化可以提高描述亲密伴侣暴力相关头部创伤如何影响长期生理、认知和心理健康的统计能力。
