A prevalence survey of abuse and screening for abuse in urgent care patients

Physical violence against women: Evaluation of women assaulted by spouses

“…Violence occurs in every race, class, and educational background, from doctors to truck drivers, from ministers to teachers. 20,21 In this study, more than half of the women living with violence were married by dating (54.1%), 54.8% of women had family permission for marriage (54.8%), and more than two thirds had an engagement period before marriage (70.4%). From these results we can conclude that not even dating, family permission, nor an engagement period before marriage is effective for partners to ascertain the potential for violence.…”

STaT: A Three-Question Screen for Intimate Partner Violence

“…A history of IPV is common among female patients and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Professional medical organizations, including the AMA, 8,9 recommend universal IPV screening by physicians, but current detection rates for IPV fall short of this goal. 10,11 One important, modifiable barrier among the many barriers to IPV screening 12,13 is the absence of a short, valid, sensitive, and easy-to-use screening tool.…”

Screening for Abuse: Barriers and Opportunities

“…Several investigators have documented the value of incorporating routine abuse screening into practice settings (McGrath et al, 1998;Wiist & McFarlane, 1998). In a recent survey of abused and nonabused female patients in urban settings, the investigator s found both sets of women agreed that providers should screen women for domestic violence (McNutt, Carlson, Gagen, & Winterbauer, 1999).…”

“…Freud, Bak, and Blackall (1996) found an 11.6% prevalence of battered women in a primary care setting. McGrath, Hogan, and Peipert (1998) studied 397 pregnant and nonpregnant women presenting to an obstetrics and gynecology urgent care unit and found that 46% of the women surveyed reported abuse in the past and 10% reported recent abuse.…”