Association of Health Conditions and Health Service Utilization With Intimate Partner Violence Identified via Routine Screening Among Middle-Aged and Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The US Preventive Services Task Force recently determined that there is insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) in women who are middle-aged and older. Certain Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinics have been routinely screening women of all ages for IPV since 2014.

Objectives

To examine the proportion of women older than childbearing age (ie, ≥45 years) who have positive results when routinely screened for past-year IPV at VHA clinics and to evaluate the associations of a positive screening result with health conditions and health service utilization.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included 4481 women aged 45 years and older who were screened for past-year IPV in 13 VHA outpatient

SUBMITTER: Makaroun LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7175082 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature