Nearly three in 10 men have experienced violence at the hands of an intimate partner during their lifetimes, according to one of the few studies to look at domestic violence and health among men.

　　"Many men actually do experience domestic violence, although we don't hear about it often," Dr. Robert J. Reid of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health. "They often don't tell and_ we don't ask. We want to get the message out to men who do experience domestic violence that they are not alone and there are resources available to them "

　　The researchers asked study participants about physical abuse and non-physical abuse , such as threats that made them fear for their safety, controlling behavior (for example, being told who they could associate with and where they could go), and constant name-calling.

　　Among men 18 to 54 years old, 14.2 percent said they had experienced intimate partner violence in the past five years, while 6. 1 percent reported domestic violence in the previous year.

　　Rates were lower for men 55 and older ,with 5.3 percent reporting violence in the past five years and 2.4 percent having experienced it in the past 12 months.

　　Overall, 30.5 percent of men younger than 55 and 26.5 percent of older men said they had been victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives. About half of the violence the men experienced was physical.

　　However, the physical violence men reported wasn't as harsh as that suffered by women in a previous study; 20 percent to 40 percent of the men rated it as severe, compared to 61 percent of women

　　Men who reported experiencing domestic violence had more emotional and mental health problems than those who had not, especially older men, the researchers found.

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　　男性也可能是家庭暴力的受害者

　　一些研究家庭暴力与男性健康的研究显示，有十分之三的男性都遭受过亲密伴侣的暴力虐待。

　　该研究的作者之一，华盛顿大学西雅图分校的罗伯特J.雷德博士对路透社健康新闻的记者说：“其实许多男性都经历过家庭暴力，只是我们不经常听说而已。我们不问他们也就往往不说。我们必须让那些遭受家庭暴力的男性知道，他们并不孤单，而且他们有资源可利用”。

　　研究者向被调查对象询问了有关生理虐待和非生理虐待的问题，如对其生命安全的恐吓，控制行为(比如告诉他们能与谁交往，不能与谁交往，哪些地方能去，哪些地方不能去)，以及经常性的谩骂与中伤。

　　年龄在l8到54岁的男性中，有14.2%的人坦言，在过去五年间经历过亲密伴侣的暴力行为.而在过去一年就经历过的人占6.1%。

　　而年龄在55岁及以上的男性，这一百分比有所下降。分别为5.3%和2。4%。

　　总体而言，55岁以下的男性中有30.5%称自己曾是家庭暴力的受害者，而在55岁及以上的男性中，这一比例为26.5%。他们经历的家庭暴力约有一半为生理虐待。

　　然而早前的研究表明，男性所受的生理虐待不如女性所受的严重，40%的男性称自己受到了严重的生理虐待，而女性比例则为61%。

　　研究人员发现，遭受过家庭暴力的男性与没有遭受过的男性相比，有更多的情感和精神方面的问题，这一问题在老年人中尤其明显。

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