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the majority of studies show rates within the range of 3.9 to 8.7 % [3, 4, 6, 8, 10–17]. Although the exact prevalence of IPV around the time of pregnancy remains unclear, it is evident that it affects a substantial group of women. In Belgium, we recently showed [17] that as many as 15.8 % (95 % CI 14.2–17.7) of women experience IPV (incl. psychological abuse) before and/or during pregnancy. In other words IPV during the perinatal period is more common than several maternal physical health conditions (e.g. preeclampsia,placenta praevia), yet IPV receives considerably less attention within perinatal care [3, 4, 18, 19]. The Belgian perinatal health care system is based on the bio-medical model [20] with obstetrician/gynaecologists (ob/gyn’s) not only accounting for obstetric and gynaecologic pathology, but also acting as primary care physicians to the general female population, e.g. in providing primary obstetric care and in offering preventive women's health medicine [16, 21]. Although pregnancy brings women into regular contact with the health caresystem and therefore offers strategic opportunities to identify and ameliorate psychosocial concerns and risk factors [22], screening or systematic inquiry for IPV and/ or psychosocial health is not part of routine perinatalcare (yet).
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