Identifying abuse among women: use of clinical guidelines by nurses and midwives

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field AIM: This aim of this study to identify the incidence of violence against women seeking healthcare services and evaluate the use of clinical guidelines to identify interpersonal violence. M...

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Published in:Journal of Advanced Nursing
Main Authors: Svavarsdottir, Erla Kolbrun, Orlygsdottir, Brynja
Other Authors: Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. eks@hi.is
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Scientific Publications 2009
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Battered Women
Cross-Sectional Studies
Domestic Violence
Emergency Nursing
Emergency Service
Hospital
Emergency Treatment
Female
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Practice
Humans
Iceland
Middle Aged
Midwifery
Nursing Assessment
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Prenatal Care
Women's Health
Young Adult
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2336/80696
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04872.x
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Summary:To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field AIM: This aim of this study to identify the incidence of violence against women seeking healthcare services and evaluate the use of clinical guidelines to identify interpersonal violence. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out. Data were collected over a period of 7 months in 2005 and 2006. The samples consisted of 14 nurses, 10 midwives and 208 women in Iceland (101 women visiting the Emergency Department and 107 receiving prenatal care at the High Risk Prenatal Care Clinic). RESULTS: Twenty women (19.6%) who visited the Emergency Department and 21 women (19.8%) who came to the High Risk Prenatal Care Clinic had been sexually abused at some point in their lives by close family members. Within the preceding 12 months, 18 women at the Emergency Department (19.1%) and eight at the High Risk Prenatal Care Clinic (7.5%) reported physical abuse, and 22 women (22.2%) at the Emergency Department and 12 (11.5%) at the High Risk Prenatal Care Clinic reported emotional abuse. A majority of the nurses and midwives indicated that the guidelines were efficient for assessing/screening for gender violence in emergency and high risk clinical settings. CONCLUSION: Screening for abuse of women at emergency and high risk clinics is crucial, not only to offer the women the immediate interventions they might need, but also to ensure the future provision of appropriate healthcare services.

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