Ready to Manage Intimate Partner Violence?
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Abstract
Background: Domestic violence is a widespread public health problem affecting one in three women, with serious consequences. Despite this high prevalence, it is estimated that only 3% of cases are presently being identified in primary care settings, and general practitioners (GPs) - as the most likely first-line professionals to be contacted - are uncertain of what to do if a case is discovered. Low awareness amongst GPs concerning intimate partner violence (IPV) has been demonstrated repeatedly, and there is unanimity in calls for effective trainings of primary care physicians in the prevention, detection, early intervention, assessment, treatment, handling, crisis-intervention, documentation, referral and follow up caring during and after an episode of intimate partner violence.
Objective: The aim of this research project is to seek input from the widest possible geographical range of Primary Health Care providers in Europe on their perception of their needs for specific training to address Family Violence and preparedness to manage this kind of situations.
Methods: A pilot study using PREMIS (Physician Readiness to Manage intimate Partner Violence Survey), a 15-minute questionnaire, will be carried out over one month through the primary care network in Europe with the aim to investigate physicians’ perceptions of their competencies and training needs in Family Violence.
The PREMIS tool will be the instrument used to measure physicians’ previous knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and skills. This test has high consistency with constructs that theoretically contribute to effective healthcare provider response to victims of IPV; in addition, PREMIS has good external validity with earlier instruments, while being more current and more comprehensive than previously used tests. In addition PREMIS has been demonstrated to be sensitive to change, and successfully discriminates between trained and non-trained physicians.
As we need to have a wide geographical reach, this descriptive study will be self-reported online using the “lumos!†platform, which enables the development and coordination of questionnaire-based studies. The platform can be easily extended and tailored for special purposes and can be employed for the needs of virtually any research study. One of the features that we have extended is the sharing of the questionnaires in different social networks with the aim of inviting many different professionals to participate in our study. Finally, all the data will be stored on a server, and snapshot reports will be shared with the research team throughout the duration of the study.
Results: The results of this study will be presented at the Conference.
Conclusions: Domestic violence remains a major public health and clinical problem with a poor health care response. The easy-to-use platform, which is accessible and feature-complete for surveys, will attract more colleagues to participate actively and engage more physicians, due to the advances in connectivity, effectiveness and efficiency of the “lumos!†platform.
By using this tool it will be possible to identify potential deficits in Primary Care professional’s curricula, evaluate possible training initiatives to develop their competencies and develop curriculum guidelines including assessment of perceived learning needs.
Objective: The aim of this research project is to seek input from the widest possible geographical range of Primary Health Care providers in Europe on their perception of their needs for specific training to address Family Violence and preparedness to manage this kind of situations.
Methods: A pilot study using PREMIS (Physician Readiness to Manage intimate Partner Violence Survey), a 15-minute questionnaire, will be carried out over one month through the primary care network in Europe with the aim to investigate physicians’ perceptions of their competencies and training needs in Family Violence.
The PREMIS tool will be the instrument used to measure physicians’ previous knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and skills. This test has high consistency with constructs that theoretically contribute to effective healthcare provider response to victims of IPV; in addition, PREMIS has good external validity with earlier instruments, while being more current and more comprehensive than previously used tests. In addition PREMIS has been demonstrated to be sensitive to change, and successfully discriminates between trained and non-trained physicians.
As we need to have a wide geographical reach, this descriptive study will be self-reported online using the “lumos!†platform, which enables the development and coordination of questionnaire-based studies. The platform can be easily extended and tailored for special purposes and can be employed for the needs of virtually any research study. One of the features that we have extended is the sharing of the questionnaires in different social networks with the aim of inviting many different professionals to participate in our study. Finally, all the data will be stored on a server, and snapshot reports will be shared with the research team throughout the duration of the study.
Results: The results of this study will be presented at the Conference.
Conclusions: Domestic violence remains a major public health and clinical problem with a poor health care response. The easy-to-use platform, which is accessible and feature-complete for surveys, will attract more colleagues to participate actively and engage more physicians, due to the advances in connectivity, effectiveness and efficiency of the “lumos!†platform.
By using this tool it will be possible to identify potential deficits in Primary Care professional’s curricula, evaluate possible training initiatives to develop their competencies and develop curriculum guidelines including assessment of perceived learning needs.
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