Research explores mind damage in women unprotected to domestic violence
A Kelowna integrate is researching a superiority of mind injuries in women who have gifted assault from an insinuate partner.
Karen Mason is a executive executive during Kelowna Women’s Shelter and her partner, Paul outpost Donkelaar, is a executive in a School of Health and Exercise Sciences during UBC Okanagan, specializing in dire mind injury.
Together, they devise to explore how domestic assault injuries impact survivors.
“We don’t have any form of grave comment when women come in to Kelowna Women’s Shelter to demeanour for mind damage or concussion,” Mason said.
“But we see in a march of many women’s stay with us that they have additional challenges,” Mason said.
Many of a women who come to a shelter show signs of depression, highlight or post dire highlight disorder as a outcome of trauma.
They also showed cognitive problems, call Mason to consternation if this was a bigger problem.
Similar symptoms
“I consider there are a series of women in insinuate partner assault situations who know that they have limits, consternation because they can’t accomplish some of a things they wish to in relocating forward, and might not even know they’ve suffered a mind injury,” Mason said.
“To have that reliable and to know it, they can put a name on it, and pierce brazen and get some diagnosis is a unequivocally large deal.”
Many of a symptoms that are benefaction in patients with PTSD can overlie with those gifted after a concussion, outpost Donkelaar explained to Daybreak South horde Chris Walker.
He compares this new study to information found in troops research, that looks into soldiers who were unprotected to makeshift bomb devices.
Focus on memory
One plea they confronted is that in many cases, there are no witnesses only a abuser and a victim.
The span will be regulating a petition grown by a co-worker during Harvard University researching identical topics to consider a mind duty and symptoms of any member in a study. But it relies only on a women’s correlation of events.
The span hopes to finish their investigate by subsequent spring. Â
With files from a CBC’s Daybreak South
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