Intimate partner violence in the first decade of motherhood: implications for the health sector

This evidence brief summarises findings from the Mothers’ and Young People’s Study – an Australian longitudinal study investigating the health and wellbeing of over 1500 first-time mothers and their first-born children.

Women in the study completed questionnaires and interviews in pregnancy and at three, six, nine and 12 months postpartum, and when their first child was four and ten years of age.