Exploring sustainable primary care responses to intimate partner violence in New Zealand: Qualitative use of complexity theory.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To explore what affects sustainable responses to intimate partner violence within New Zealand primary care settings using complexity theory. DESIGN:Primary care professional interviews on intimate partner violence as a health issue are analysed using a complexity theory-led qualitative research methodology grounded in poststructuralism. SETTING:Four general practices in one region of the North Island of New Zealand, two serving a general patient population and two adopting an indigenous approach. PARTICIPANTS:Seventeen primary care professionals and management from the four recruited general practices. RESULTS:The complex adaptive system approach the 'Triple R Pathway', calls attention to system interactions influencing intimate partner violence responsiveness across health syste

SUBMITTER: Gear C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6858093 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature