%0 Journal Article %T Research on Spousal Violence: Toward a Balanced and Rigorous Approach %A Carlos V¨Şlchez-Rom¨˘n %J Archive of "American Journal of Public Health". %D 2016 %R 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302966 %X AJPH has published a study on intimate partner violence (IPV) that examined the relationship between IPV and community-level factors in post-Soviet countries.1 The author used survey data from a study conducted between 2005 and 2012 in five counties and applied a logistic multilevel modeling to identify the contextual factors associated with IPV. Although the procedure and statistical analysis is detailed and makes possible a replication of the study, this letter discusses the theoretical approach used to analyze IPV %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4985102/