Facilitators and barriers to routine intimate partner violence screening in antenatal care settings in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uganda clinical guidelines recommend routine screening of pregnant women for intimate partner violence (IPV) during antenatal care (ANC). Healthcare providers play a critical role in identifying IPV during pregnancy in ANC clinics. This study explored facilitators and barriers for IPV screening during pregnancy (perinatal IPV screening) by ANC-based healthcare workers in Uganda.

Methods

We conducted qualitative in-depth interviews among twenty-eight purposively selected healthcare providers in one rural and an urban-based ANC health center in Eastern and Central Uganda respectively. Barriers and facilitators to IPV screening during ANC were identified iteratively using inductive-deductive thematic analysis.

Results

Participants had provided ANC services for

SUBMITTER: Anguzu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889632 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature