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World J Psychiatry. Jan 19, 2026; 16(1): 112745
Published online Jan 19, 2026. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i1.112745
Published online Jan 19, 2026. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i1.112745
Mental and physical health outcomes among intimate partner violence survivors in Taiwan: A nationwide registry-based case control study
Shin-Ting Yeh, Yu-Chen Chen, Graduate Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Healthcare, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei 112303, Taiwan
Ming-Yi Li, Department of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
Co-first authors: Shin-Ting Yeh and Ming-Yi Li.
Author contributions: Li MY and Chen YC drafted the original manuscript; Li MY developed the methodology and software; Yeh ST conceptualized the study, performed methodological design, and reviewed and edited all subsequent versions of the manuscript, in addition to supervising the study; Yeh ST and Li MY conducted the formal analyses, contributed equally, and their complementary but equivalent intellectual leadership and workload justify their co-first author designation. All authors approved the final version to publish.
Supported by National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, No. MOST 111-2629-H-227-001-MY2.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, No. YM111102E. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant institutional guidelines.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was waived due to the de-identified nature of the secondary data from the Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. No individual patient contact was required.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: Although the data that support the findings of this study are not publicly available, access may be granted upon reasonable request, with permission from the Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. Restrictions that will apply to the availability of these data are in accordance with its original usage under license for the current study.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Shin-Ting Yeh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Healthcare, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, No. 365 Mingte Road, Peitou District, Taipei 112303, Taiwan.
Received: August 8, 2025
Revised: September 1, 2025
Accepted: October 20, 2025
Published online: January 19, 2026
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Revised: September 1, 2025
Accepted: October 20, 2025
Published online: January 19, 2026
Processing time: 145 Days and 10.2 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: This nationwide, registry-based case control study is the first in Taiwan to comprehensively assess both psychiatric and physical health risks among adults with documented intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure. The findings demonstrate that IPV survivors, regardless of sex, face substantially increased risks of major psychiatric disorders and asthma within 1 year, highlighting the urgent need to integrate mental health screening and multidisciplinary care into routine services for IPV-affected individuals.