Opportunistic domestic violence screening for pregnant and post-partum women by community based health care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Domestic violence against women is a global endemic that can commence or escalate during pregnancy and continue postpartum. Pregnant and postpartum women generally access health care providers more at this time than at any other time in their lives. Despite this, little is known about primary health care providers' screening practices for domestic violence. The purpose of this paper is to present survey findings that identified domestic violence screening practices of community based health care providers in pregnant and postpartum women.

Methods

This paper reports on the survey results of a larger sequential mixed methods study that involved a survey and semi-structured interviews, and used a pragmatic approach to the data collection and analysis. The survey soug

SUBMITTER: O'Reilly R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056948 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature