Adaptación del instrumento WAST para la detección de violencia doméstica en Centros de Salud

Abstract

(Rev Med Chile 2018; 146: 331-340)

Cross-cultural adaptation of an intimate partner violence screening tool (WAST) for the Mozambican context; implications for more effective HIV prevention and treatment counseling

“…Giving individuals doing HIV counseling and persons treating persons domestic violence the WAST and instruction on the interrelations of both epidemics will sensitize them to the importance of connecting with related services such as psychosocial therapy, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (pMTCT), and anti-retroviral treatment (ART) (WHO, 2017;Li et al, 2014). For primary health care, the challenge remains in the development of consistent and effective violence prevention and victim care policies, including intersectoral coordination (Binfa et al, 2018).…”

“…Thus, this study aims to translate and cross-culturally adapt an intimate partner violence screening tool (WAST) for men and women in the Mozambican context. Further, it discusses the implications of the availability of this culturally adapted tool for clinicians who can now more effectively provide HIV prevention and treatment counseling in Mozambique and other Portuguese speaking countries, e.g., Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. understand instrument, developed in the United States of America by Brown et al (1996), consisting of 8 Likert-type questions, which measure (a) the degree of stress in the relationship, (b) difficulty in resolving discussions, and (c) existence of violent episodes at an emotional, psychological, physical or sexual level (Binfa et al, 2018). It is the instrument for IPV screening chosen for crosscultural adaptation, assessment of conceptual and term equivalence, and evaluation of semantic equivalence in Mozambique.…”

Reflexión sobre factores causales de la violencia de género

“…En el aspecto psicológico, se han desarrollado varios instrumentos de evaluación para evaluar diferentes formas de violencia contra la mujer, como son el Woman Abuse Screening Tool (Binfa et al, 2018), el Illinois Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance Scale -ISHMA- (Expósito et al, 2014), el Cuestionario de Hostigamiento Sexual Laboral -HOSEL- (Preciado & Franco, 2013), la Sexual Resourcefulness Scale -SRS- (Humphreys & Kennett, 2010), el Sexual Experiences Questionnaire -SEQ- (Gutek et al, 2004), la Likelihood to Sexually Harass Scale -LSH- (Lee et al, 2003) y el Sexual Experiences Questionaire Department of Defense -SEQ-DoD- (Fitzgerald et al, 1999).…”

Factores de Riesgos en la Violencia de Género e Intrafamiliar en la Parroquia La Pila del Cantón Montecristi

“…El instrumento WAST consta de 8 preguntas tipo Likert que interroga sobre a) el grado de estrés existente en la relación; b) dificultad para resolver discusiones y c) existencia de episodios violentos a nivel emocional, psicológico, físico o sexual y cuyas posibles respuestas se disponen en tres niveles que van de menor a mayor gravedad. Este instrumento fue traducido al español y validado por Forgarty y Brown en Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en el año 2002, obteniendo una sensibilidad de 89% y especificidad de 94%, con un alfa de Cronbach de 0,91 (Binfa et al, 2018).…”