Health Care Professionalsʼ Skills, Beliefs, and Expectations About Screening for Domestic Violence in a Border Community

Goff, Heather W.; Byrd, Theresa; Shelton, Andrea J.; Parcel, Guy S.

doi:10.1097/00003727-200104000-00007

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“…Although this study found that a provider’s occupation was not a significant predictor of screening practices when gender was controlled, most previous studies have reported that nurses and NPs are more likely to screen for IPV than physicians (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998; Goff, Byrd, Shelton, & Parcel, 2001; Stayton & Duncan, 2005), with the exception of a Canadian study that found physicians to be more likely to initiate the topic of IPV than nurses (Falsetti, 2007). Because nurses and NPs are disproportionately female, it may be that gender underlies previous findings.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence Screening Practices in California After Passage of the Affordable Care Act

Tavrow

Bloom

Withers

2016

Violence Against Women

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Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance coverage should include screening for intimate partner violence (IPV). In this article, we present self-reported IPV screening practices and provider confidence from a post-ACA cross-sectional survey of 137 primary care clinicians in California. Only 14% of the providers reported always screening female patients for IPV and about one third seemed never to screen. Female providers were more likely to screen and use recommended direct questioning. Most providers lacked confidence in screening, referral, and record-keeping. Serving a low-income population predicted more frequent screening and better record-keeping. Overall, IPV screening in primary care was inadequate and needs attention.

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confidence: 84%

Intimate Partner Violence Screening Practices in California After Passage of the Affordable Care Act

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Withers

2016

Violence Against Women

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“…19 However, it has been shown that appropriate and adequate education on domestic violence had a positive association with preparedness, beliefs about when to screen, and outcome expectations among health providers. 20 It is noteworthy that Caralis et al's study 19 revealed that 50% of the women felt doctors should routinely screen for abuse. Another study on identifying violence in primary care practice found that domestic violence identification rose from 0% to 11.6% when the health history form included just 1 direct question asking the patient if a partner ever hit him or her.…”

Section: Role Of Primary Care In Identifying and Preventing Domestic mentioning

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Early Detection and Prevention of Domestic Violence Using the Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) in Primary Health Care Clinics in Malaysia

Wong

Othman

2008

Asia Pac J Public Health

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Despite being an emergent major public health problem, little research has been done on domestic violence from the perspectives of early detection and prevention. Thus, this cross-sectional study was conducted to identify domestic violence among female adult patients attending health centers at the primary care level and to determine the relationship between social correlates of adult patients and domestic violence screening and subsequent help/health-seeking behavior if abused. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 710 female adult patients from 8 health centers in Selangor who matched the inclusion criteria and consented to participate in the study, using a structured questionnaire that included adaptation of a validated 8-item Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST). Statistical tests showed significant differences in ethnicity, income, and education between those screened positive and those screened negative for domestic violence. Of the participants, 92.4% reported that during consultations, doctors had never asked them whether they were abused by their husband/partner. Yet, 67.3% said they would voluntarily tell the doctor if they were abused by their husband/partner. The findings indicate that primary care has an important role in identifying domestic violence by applying the WAST screening tool, or an appropriate adaptation, with women patients during routine visits to the various health centers. Such assessment for abuse could be secondary prevention for the abused women, but more important, it will serve as primary prevention for nonabused women. This approach not only will complement the existing 1-stop crisis center policy by the Ministry of Health that copes with crisis intervention but also will spearhead efforts toward prevention of domestic violence in Malaysia.

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“…Findings have indicated that the higher the level of total education that physicians receive about violence against women, the more prepared they are to identify, detect, and treat the problem. Studies have also found a significant correlation between physicians' education and preparedness and the percentage of battered women who have been identified among their patients (Goff, Byrd, Shelton, & Parcel, 2001). Other studies have found that the extent of support that physicians receive in their workplaces substantially affects the extent of their willingness to screen cases of domestic violence (Allen, Lehrner, Mattison, Miles, & Russell, 2007) and to be involved in assisting the victims, above and beyond providing essential medical treatment.…”

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Palestinian Physicians’ Misconceptions About and Approval of Wife Abuse

Haj‐Yahia

2009

J Interpers Violence

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The article presents the results of a study that examined Palestinian physicians' misconceptions about abused wives and abusive husbands and the extent to which Palestinian physicians approve of wife abuse. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 396 physicians. The results revealed that between 10% and 49% of the Palestinian physicians held misconceptions about abused wives and between 15% and 63% held misconceptions about abusive husbands. The findings also revealed that substantial percentages of physicians tended to approve of moderate and severe violence against wives. Significant amounts of the variance in the physicians' approval of moderate and severe wife abuse can be attributed to their exposure to family violence and to their patriarchal ideology-variance over and above that which can be explained by the physicians' sociodemographic characteristics. The limitations of the study are discussed, as are the implications of the results for future research and theory development on the approaches of professionals toward wife abuse.

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Health Care Professionalsʼ Skills, Beliefs, and Expectations About Screening for Domestic Violence in a Border Community

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Intimate Partner Violence Screening Practices in California After Passage of the Affordable Care Act

Intimate Partner Violence Screening Practices in California After Passage of the Affordable Care Act

Early Detection and Prevention of Domestic Violence Using the Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) in Primary Health Care Clinics in Malaysia

Palestinian Physicians’ Misconceptions About and Approval of Wife Abuse

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