Table 1.

Characteristic of participants and their experience of domestic violence and abuse

Site	Age	Marital status	Ethnicity	Number of children	Length of abuse	Type of abuse	With perpetrator
Bristol	48	Cohabiting	White British	1	29 years	Physical, verbal, emotional, financial	Yes
Bristol	27	Separated seeking divorce	Eastern European	0	3 months	Verbal, emotional	No
Bristol	41	Single	White British	1	Unknown	Physical, emotional	No
Bristol	42	Married	White British	1	24 years	Physical, emotional	Yes
Bristol	81	Married	White British	3	60 years	Physical, emotional, verbal	Yes
Bristol	46	Married	White British	1^a	6 years	Physical, emotional	Yes
Bristol	57	Widowed^a	White British	0	Unknown	Physical, sexual, emotional	No
Hackney	49	Married	Black Caribbean	5	26 years	Verbal, emotional, financial	Yes
Hackney	34	Single	Polish	1	7 years	Emotional, financial, physical	No
Hackney	55	Single	White British	3	3 years	Physical, emotional, verbal	No
Hackney	23	Separated	Turkish	1	4 years	Physical, emotional, financial	No
Hackney	>30	Single	Unknown	0	2 years	Physical, emotional, verbal, stalking	No