Nebraska Brain Injury in Domestic Violence
At a national level, nearly 36 percent of domestic violence survivors had been hit on their head, neck, or face. Additionally, women with these injuries were over 7 times more likely to be survivors of domestic/intimate partner violence.
Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska partnered with the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and organizations in the Lincoln and Omaha areas providing services to domestic violence survivors, to look into how common brain injuries are in Nebraska domestic violence survivors. Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska and its partners' study found that 58% of individuals screened in two Nebraska domestic violence programs screened positive for brain injury.
