Screening Risks for Intimate Partner Violence and Primary Care Settings Implications for Future Abuse

Most health care intervention models for intimate partner violence (IPV) are crisis driven and targeted to survivors of injury following episodes of physical violence. Knowledge about anticipatory and preventive approaches with women who are at risk for abuse is scarce, limiting professionals'...

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Published inSocial work in health care Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 1 - 23
Main Authors Ross, Julie, Walther, Virginia, Epstein, Irwin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2004
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Battered Women
Battered Women - statistics & numerical data
Detection
Domestic violence
Domestic Violence - prevention & control
Domestic Violence - psychology
early detection
Family Violence
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Intervention
Intimate partner violence
Mass Screening - methods
Medicaid
Middle Aged
New York City
New York City, New York
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Partner Abuse
practice-based research
Prevention
primary care
Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care - methods
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Risks
Screening
Social Work
Spouse Abuse
Surveys and Questionnaires
Women's Health Services
New York City
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Summary:Most health care intervention models for intimate partner violence (IPV) are crisis driven and targeted to survivors of injury following episodes of physical violence. Knowledge about anticipatory and preventive approaches with women who are at risk for abuse is scarce, limiting professionals' ability to respond fully and effectively to this problem. This paper describes a retrospective, practice-based research study of social work interventions in two hospital-based primary care practices. A total of 431 female patients completed a self-administered questionnaire developed for the early detection of IPV risk factors during routine health care visits. The study showed surprisingly high rates of multiple risk markers in an urban primary care population whose medical presentations ordinarily would not raise provider suspicion about abuse. Findings confirmed the willingness of primary care populations to freely partake in routine screening and support the value of early identification and intervention with populations at risk. Practice implications are discussed.
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ISSN:0098-1389
1541-034X
DOI:10.1300/J010v38n04_01