Confronting barriers to universal screening for domestic violence

Davis, Ruth; Harsh, Kenetta E.

doi:10.1053/jpnu.2001.28181

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“…In a survey conducted in an Australian emergency department, around 60% of nurses and doctors were found possessing the right knowledge about IPV (Roberts, Raphael, Lawrence, O'Toole, & O'Brien, 1997). Nevertheless, the nursing staff was usually found lack of education concerning to domestic violence issues (Davis & Harsh, 2001). In a study of health professionals' perception of IPV in Serbia, though all participants deemed IPV as totally unacceptable action, the surveyed blamed both the abuser and the victim for the incident (Djikanovic, Celik, Simic, Matejic, & Cucic, 2010).…”

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Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

Wang

2016

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

Wang

2016

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] However, the typical pattern of IPV is that patients stay in abusive relationships long after the initial screening or disclosure takes place. Primary care providers and their staff must be able to provide long-term continuity care to patients who remain in abusive relationships.…”

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Health Care Workers' Expectations and Empathy toward Patients in Abusive Relationships

Nicolaidis

Curry

Gerrity

2005

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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Purpose: To understand attitudes that may affect health care workers' ability to provide appropriate long-term care for patients who stay with abusive partners.Methods: We surveyed 278 health care workers in 31 primary care practices before their participation in an educational intervention.Results: More than half of participants (51% to 60%) found it easy to empathize with a patient who decided to remain in an abusive relationship if the patient was described as poor or disabled, but few (25% to 39%) could empathize if the patient was described as educated or financially secure. A majority (57% to 59%) agreed with a statement meant to assess unrealistic expectations. ("A provider's responsibility includes making sure a patient gets to a shelter right away if he or she discloses abuse.") Participants who agreed with this statement had more difficulty empathizing with patients who decided to stay with an abusive partner (P ‫؍‬ .0045).Conclusions

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“…Studies from elsewhere showed that nurses may feel incompetent to deal with such an overwhelming problem and that they would even avoid performing essential tasks such as screening survivors of abuse. [19,20] These expressed problems might reflect more than purely clinical competence issues, but also problems with attitudes, emotions and differential responses, especially when female nurses interact with abused women. [19] Another study found that nurses caring for assaulted women expressed feelings of incompetence but compensated for a lack of training through personal maturity and security within the social context.…”

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“Qualified but not competent enough”: Health workers’ assessment of their competence in relation to caring for sexually abused women in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Kaboru

Borneskog

Adolfsson

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JNEP

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The aim of this study was to assess health professionals' opinions of their competence levels in responding to health needs of victims of sexual violence. This study used a cross-sectional design with a descriptive approach. A total of 104 physicians, nurses and social workers participated in the study. The data was collected using a questionnaire consisting of open and close-ended questions. Overall, 75% of the respondents were university graduates, but only a quarter of them felt they have adequate competence to care for these women; 36% had difficulties with general health assessment of assaulted women. The results indicated that nurses are critical professionals in caring for victims of sexual violence, that they see these women more than any other professional category. However, they are more likely than other categories to report being incompetent. Access to continued education was difficult, and more so for clinically-oriented health professionals than for others social professionals. Human resources capacity strengthening and particularly that of nurses will be the key investment in addressing assaulted women's health needs in this region. Clinical researchers are called to identify rapid methods to reinforce nurses' capacity and role in such a context with deprived health systems.

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Confronting barriers to universal screening for domestic violence

Cited by 48 publications

References 19 publications

Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

Health Care Workers' Expectations and Empathy toward Patients in Abusive Relationships

“Qualified but not competent enough”: Health workers’ assessment of their competence in relation to caring for sexually abused women in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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