Screening women for intimate partner violence in healthcare settings: abridged Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effectiveness of screening for intimate partner violence conducted within healthcare settings to determine whether or not screening increases identification and referral to support agencies, improves women's wellbeing, decreases further violence, or causes harm.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis of trials assessing effectiveness of screening. Study assessment, data abstraction, and quality assessment were conducted independently by two of the authors. Standardised estimations of the risk ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated.

Data sources

Nine databases searched up to July 2012 (CENTRAL, Medline, Medline(R), Embase, DARE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and ASSIA), and five trials registers searched up to 2010.

SUBMITTER: O'Doherty LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4018471 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature