Domestic abuse awareness and recognition among primary healthcare professionals and abused women: a qualitative investigation

Abstract

The framework may be used in clinical practice by nurses and other health professionals to facilitate open discussion between professionals and women. In turn, this may empower women to make choices regarding disclosure and safety planning.

Domestic violence and abuse: an exploration and evaluation of a domestic abuse nurse specialist role in acute health care services

“…However, Bradbury‐Jones et al . () have argued that while health care services ‘play a central role in recognising and responding to domestic abuse, there is a double‐edged problem’ (p. 3058) in that health care professionals are reluctant to approach the subject of DVA with patients/clients and are equally ill equipped to respond appropriately to disclosure.…”

Nurses' recognition of domestic violence and abuse

“…These were compounded by confusion as to whose role it is to intervene (Husso et al, 2012;Williston & Lafreniere, 2013) and by the complexity of survivors who commonly conceal their experiences (Litherland, 2012;Bradbury-Jones et al, 2014). However, training for…”

“…Lack of time, resources, knowledge, clear responsibility or the organisational culture means that recognition of DVA is avoided in favour of other priorities or pressures (Litherland, 2012;McGarry & Nairn, 2014;Natan et al, 2012;Husso et al, 2012;Bradbury-Jones et al, 2014;LoGiudice, 2015;Al Natour, 2016). Bradbury-Jones et al (2014) investigated the nature of DVA awareness and recognition in 29 primary healthcare staff and 14 female survivors.…”

“…The study found that the women wanted to be asked about DVA, and suggested that it is the responsibility of HCPs to create an environment and therapeutic relationship in which such issues can be openly discussed. This requires skills and experience, and it has been found that the more experience or prepared staff are for identifying and screening for DVA the more likely they are to recognise and screen for it in future (Lawoko et al, 2011;Natan et al, 2012;Bradbury-Jones, 2014).…”

Feature Encodings and Poolings for Action and Event Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

“…There are many promising applications for action and event recognition, such as abnormal action and event recognition in surveillance applications [1][2][3][4], interaction action and event recognition in entertainment applications [5][6][7][8], and home-based rehabilitation action and event recognition in healthcare applications [9][10][11][12], and many other analogous applications such as in [13][14][15][16][17][18]. According to the definition given by NIST [19], an event is a complex activity occurring at a specific place and time, which involves people interacting with other people and/or objects, and consists of a number of human actions, processes, and activities.…”