Attitudes of health professionals towards violence and their tendency to report spousal violence.
Attitude
Domestic violence
Health professionals
Reporting
Violence
Journal
Asian journal of psychiatry
ISSN: 1876-2026
Titre abrégé: Asian J Psychiatr
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101517820
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2023
May 2023
Historique:
received:
15
12
2022
revised:
22
02
2023
accepted:
12
03
2023
medline:
9
5
2023
pubmed:
23
3
2023
entrez:
22
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of primary care providers, physicians, nurses and midwives towards domestic violence and their tendencies to report violence against women and the affecting factors. The population of this study was 294 health professionals. The mean score on the Domestic Violence was 19.23 ± 4.28 and on the Scale of Health Professionals' Intentions/Behaviors Regarding Reporting Intimate Partner Violence was 124.24 ± 20.41. While the health professionals' attitudes towards domestic violence were more negative in our study, attitudes towards reporting violence against women were more positive. Also, health professionals faced ethical problems related to the principles of privacy and confidentiality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36947917
pii: S1876-2018(23)00095-3
doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103540
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
103540Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Conflicting Interests The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.