This study uses data from 29,990 women from 12 different countries collected by the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence to capture the effect of different types, frequency and timing of IPV on self-reported health, symptoms and suicidal behaviours.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has detrimental effects on physical and mental health, risks to children and is associated with wider societal and healthcare costs. Previous analysis of the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence found significant associations between physical and sexual IPV and self-reported ill-health, symptomatology and suicidal behaviours.

Real experience of IPV can comprise different combinations of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, and different timings and frequencies of these. A more nuanced testing of exposure to these different combinations of IPV and associations with health is needed.

This study uses data from 29,990 women from 12 different countries collected by the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence to capture the effect of different combination types, frequency and timing of IPV on self-reported health, symptoms and suicidal behaviours.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The WHO report that in most sites, a representative sample of women was obtained using a two-stage cluster sampling scheme to select households and then only one woman per household was randomly selected per household for interview.

Exclusion Criteria:

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This study consists of further analysis of 29,990 interviews conducted with women in 12 different countries coordinated by the World Health Organisation. They report in most sites around 1500 women between 15 and 49 years old were interviewed. Countries included were Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Japan, Maldives, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania.