59 (29 Aim: to understand challenges, and enablers Privacy, tensions between wanting to IV () antenatal) of screening apply this to a model of how offer trust, and limited confidentiality, as health policies become routinised in practice well as worker’s frustration at women who elect not to end abusive Setting: Australia relationships, remain challenges to the Population: health care workers continued implementation of screening Methods: Focus groups were conducted, with in an established program. Factors health care workers at 10 health services (5 facilitating uptake included brief, antenatal settings) within two of the eight scripted questions embedded in NSW health regions assessment schedules, training, access to referral services, familiarity, and women’s favourable reactions. Aim: to identify the incidence of violence Twenty women (19.6%) who visited the IV 232 () against women seeking healthcare services Emergency Department and 21 and evaluate the use of clinical guidelines to women (19.8%) who came to the High identify interpersonal violence. Risk Prenatal Care Clinic had been sexually abused at some point in their Setting: Iceland lives by close family members. Within Population: nurses, midwives and women the preceding 12 months, 18 women at visiting the emergency department of high risk the Emergency Department (19.1%) prenatal care clinic and eight at the High Risk Prenatal Methods: Data were collected over a period Care Clinic (7.5%) reported physical of 7 months in 2005 and 2006. The samples abuse, and 22 women (22.2%) at the consisted of 14 nurses, 10 midwives and 208 Emergency Department and 12 (11.5%) women in Iceland (101 women visiting the at the High Risk Prenatal Care Clinic Emergency Department and 107 receiving reported emotional abuse. A majority prenatal care at the High Risk Prenatal Care of the nurses and midwives indicated Clinic). that the guidelines were efficient for assessing/screening for gender violence in emergency and high risk clinical settings.
() IV 59 (29 antenatal) Aim: to understand challenges, and enablers of screening apply this to a model of how health policies become routinised in practice Setting: Australia Population: health care workers Methods: Focus groups were conducted, with health care workers at 10 health services (5 antenatal settings) within two of the eight NSW health regions Privacy, tensions between wanting to offer trust, and limited confidentiality, as well as worker’s frustration at women who elect not to end abusive relationships, remain challenges to the continued implementation of screening in an established program. Factors facilitating uptake included brief, scripted questions embedded in assessment schedules, training, access to referral services, familiarity, and women’s favourable reactions. () IV 232 Aim: to identify the incidence of violence against women seeking healthcare services and evaluate the use of clinical guidelines to identify interpersonal violence. Setting: Iceland Population: nurses, midwives and women visiting the emergency department of high risk prenatal care clinic Methods: 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). 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.
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