Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Domestic violence: examining nurses' and doctors' management, attitudes and knowledge in an accident and emergency setting
Other Titles:	Australian journal of advanced nursing
Authors:	Brown, Wendy Bates, Lucy
Keywords:	Risk factors;Health;Screening;Community attitudes
Year:	1998
Publisher:	Australian Nursing Federation
Citation:	15 (3), March-May 1998
Notes:	Domestic violence is increasingly perceived as a health problem. The numbers of people experiencing intimate partner abuse and accessing the accident and emergency areas render health care facilities as appropriate settings to screen for domestic violence and to provide information and referral. This study measures domestic violence understanding, attitudes and management of Accident and Emergency staff from the Hunter Area Health Service (NSW). Seventy nurses and forty-one doctors working in two rural and two country hospitals completed self-administered questionnaires. Amongst the findings was the fact that only sixteen per cent of the participants had had previous professional training in domestic violence. More than half of the staff believed that domestic violence would be more commonly experienced by alcoholic, low-income, aboriginal or single women. Thirty per cent of doctors agreed with the statement that victims do not leave the abusive relationship due to their own masochism. The authors recommend education programmes that focus on direct questioning techniques, and on how to recognise risk factors and protocols for providing guidelines for involving the police.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14450
ISSN:	8130531
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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