Mothers' and Health Care Providers' Perspectives on Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in a Pediatric Emergency Department

Mothers' and health care providers' perspectives on screening for intimate partner violence in a pediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To determine the attitudes, feelings, and beliefs of mothers and pediatric emergency department health care providers toward routine intimate partner violence screening. METHODS This qualitative project employed focus groups of mothers who brought their children to a children's hospital emergency department for care, and physicians and nurses who staffed the same department. We held...

Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Implications for Health Care Providers

Intimate partner violence screening in the emergency department.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Every year between 1.5 and 4 million women are abused by a partner in the United States and many abused women turn to the Emergency Department (ED) as their first source of care. Even though the vast majority of patients would feel comfortable disclosing intimate partner violence (IPV) to their physician, identification and referral is inconsistent . AIMS The aim of this p...

Screening for intimate partner violence by health care providers. Barriers and interventions.

INTRODUCTION Routine screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) is endorsed by numerous health professional organizations. Screening rates in health care settings, however, remain low. In this article, we present a review of studies focusing on provider-specific barriers to screening for IPV and interventions designed to increase IPV screening in clinical settings. METHODS A review of publ...

Screening for intimate partner violence using an audiotape questionnaire: a randomized clinical trial in a pediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To compare women's acceptability ratings of 2 different intimate partner violence screening methods, an audiotape questionnaire and a written questionnaire, in a pediatric emergency department. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial. SETTING An urban, pediatric, tertiary care center emergency department. PARTICIPANTS Female caregivers of children. MAIN EXPOSURE Intimate partner viol...