Health practitioners' readiness to address domestic violence and abuse: A qualitative meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT: Health practitioners play an important role in identifying and responding to domestic violence and abuse (DVA). Despite a large amount of evidence about barriers and facilitators influencing health practitioners' care of survivors of DVA, evidence about their readiness to address DVA has not been synthesised. This article reports a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies exploring the research question: What do health practitioners perceive enhances their readiness to address domestic violence and abuse? Multiple data bases were searched in June 2018. Inclusion criteria included: qualitative design; population of health practitioners in clinical settings; and a focus on intimate partner violence. Two reviewers independently screened articles and findings from included papers were synthesised

SUBMITTER: Hegarty K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7297351 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature