About the Authors

Kylee Trevillion

Affiliation Section of Women's Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Siân Oram

Affiliation Section of Women's Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Gene Feder

Affiliation Centre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

Louise M. Howard

louise.howard@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Section of Women's Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Gene Feder and Louise M. Howard are members of the WHO Guideline Development Group on Policy and Practice Guidelines for responding to Violence Against Women and the NICE/SCIE Guideline Development Group on Preventing and Reducing Domestic Violence. KT and SO declare no competing interests. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMH GF SO KT. Performed the experiments: KT SO. Analyzed the data: KT SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT SO. Wrote the paper: KT SO GF LMH. Critical revisions of the manuscript: KT SO GF LMH.