Barriers and facilitators to screening for intimate partner violence at a level 1 trauma center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem that is associated with substantial health sequelae, including traumatic injury. Surgical professional societies recommend universal intimate partner violence screening in patients presenting after trauma, but this recommendation is not uniformly implemented. We designed and implemented a quality improvement project at our institution in July 2020 to enhance intimate partner violence screening. Although screening rates improved, they remained suboptimal. Therefore, we sought to examine barriers and facilitators to intimate partner violence screening from trauma clinicians' perspectives.

Study design

We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth, semistructured interviews to understand the per

SUBMITTER: Melhado C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11890200 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature