A Clinical Decision Support Tool for Intimate Partner Violence Screening Among Women Veterans: Development and Qualitative Evaluation of Provider Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women veterans, compared to civilian women, are especially at risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), pointing to the critical need for IPV screening and intervention in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). However, implementing paper-based IPV screening and intervention in the VHA has revealed substantial barriers, including health care providers' inadequate IPV training, competing demands, time constraints, and discomfort addressing IPV and making decisions about the appropriate type or level of intervention.

Objective

This study aimed to address IPV screening implementation barriers and hence developed and tested a novel IPV clinical decision support (CDS) tool for physicians in the Women's Health Clinic (WHC), a primary care clinic within th

SUBMITTER: Rossi FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11464933 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature