Violence

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Next Steps

The implementation of the Women’s Preventive Services Guidelines —and the release of the 2013 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation—create new opportunities for identifying women experiencing IPV through the increased use of screening by health care providers. The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, funded by

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Existing Evidence on Screening and Intervention

The 2013 USPSTF recommendation supporting screening of all women of childbearing age for intimate partner violence was based on the 2012 Annals of Internal Medicine’s “Systematic Review of Evidence to Update the 2004 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation” (Nelson et al. 2012). That review of 36 studies about IPV screening in hea

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Reasons for Relatively Low Screening Prevalence

Clinician-reported barriers to screening

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Prevalence of Screening

Research indicates that the prevalence of screening for intimate partner violence differs across health care specialties and is, overall, relatively low. One study synthesized the literature regarding screening rates from 1992 to 2005, finding that 3 to 41 percent of physicians reported routine screening for intimate partner abuse (Stayton and Dun

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Reasons for Screening in Health Care Settings

Domestic violence is prevalent among women

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Background

In 2011 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released, Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, an extensive report which identified eight key preventive services that would help ensure women’s health and well-being. That same year the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted these recommendations in the Women�

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings

In light of recent policy changes in support of domestic violence screening in health care settings, this policy brief presents the state of practice and research on this preventive service. The brief discusses reasons for screening in health care settings, the current prevalence of screening and reasons this prevalence is relatively low, existing