Aim: To identify maternity and sexual Maternity and sexual health IV 254 () healthcare professionals' training needs professionals reported positive attitudes regarding routine enquiry for domestic abuse. towards women affected by abuse, but had limited domestic abuse Setting: United Kingdom training. Previously trained health Population: Maternity professionals (n=228) professionals had good general and sexual health practitioners (n=46) knowledge, but failed to question Methods: Participants attended a 1-day attendees about abuse. Sexual health domestic abuse training session. Pre-training professionals were more likely to questionnaires were completed by 208 enquire about domestic abuse, and respondents (80% response rate). The were more confident about questionnaire elicited information about implementing routine enquiry than previous training experiences, dealing with maternity staff. Views on routine enquiry cases of abuse, general knowledge, attitudes were influenced by health setting, towards victims of abuse and views on routine demographic, attitudinal and enquiry. Bivariate and multivariate analyses experiential factors. were conducted to identify differences according to healthcare setting, prior training, and practitioners' demographic and experiential traits.
() IV 254 Aim: To identify maternity and sexual healthcare professionals' training needs regarding routine enquiry for domestic abuse. Setting: United Kingdom Population: Maternity professionals (n=228) and sexual health practitioners (n=46) Methods: Participants attended a 1-day domestic abuse training session. Pre-training questionnaires were completed by 208 respondents (80% response rate). The questionnaire elicited information about previous training experiences, dealing with cases of abuse, general knowledge, attitudes towards victims of abuse and views on routine enquiry. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to identify differences according to healthcare setting, prior training, and practitioners' demographic and experiential traits. Maternity and sexual health professionals reported positive attitudes towards women affected by abuse, but had limited domestic abuse training. Previously trained health professionals had good general knowledge, but failed to question attendees about abuse. Sexual health professionals were more likely to enquire about domestic abuse, and were more confident about implementing routine enquiry than maternity staff. Views on routine enquiry were influenced by health setting, demographic, attitudinal and experiential factors.
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