Intimate partner violence screening during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Emergency Department (ED) screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) is typically nursing-initiated, often with visitors present. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen both an increase in societal stress, a known exacerbator of IPV, and the implementation of visitor restriction policies. This combination presents the need for enhanced IPV screening and the opportunity to perform screening in a controlled, patient-only environment. Our goal was to evaluate the frequency of nurse-initiated screening for IPV prior to and during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the frequency of positive screens for IPV.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study evaluating all adults (age >18 years) presenting to a tertiary care

SUBMITTER: Hoffman RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124835 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature