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Screening for domestic violence

open access: yesNursing Management (Springhouse), 2003
Nurses have a unique opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate the outcomes of routine assessments and interventions.
Diane M, Carney, Laura, McKibbin
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Silencing by design: Lessons learned about child sexual abuse from a university sexual assault survey

open access: yesWomen's Health, 2021
Background: University students have been recognized as particularly being vulnerable to sexual victimization. Purpose: With little research to date, and acknowledgement for the need of a better understanding of sexual violence, our study analysed the ...
Marika Guggisberg   +5 more
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Extreme risk protection orders in King County, Washington: the epidemiology of dangerous behaviors and an intervention response

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2020
Background Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws are a promising gun violence prevention strategy. ERPO laws allow specific categories of people (law enforcement in all states, family in most) to petition a court to request that an individual be ...
Shannon Frattaroli   +6 more
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Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health concern. While community-level gender norms and attitudes to IPV are recognised drivers of IPV risk, there is little evidence on how interventions might tackle these ...
Tanya Abramsky   +7 more
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Domestic Violence During the Period From 2015 to 2020 and Effect of Covid 19 on Domestic Violence [PDF]

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology, 2022
: Background: Domestic violence could be a pattern of injurious behaviour in any relationship that's utilized by one partner to pick up or keep up control over another intimate partner.
Heba Rohym, Ghada Elgalad, Enas Morsi
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Domestic violence and pregnancy [PDF]

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1997
Domestic violence is reported by up to one in four women in Britain1 and represents a serious public health issue. The psychological and social consequences of domestic violence include alcohol and drug dependence, suicide attempts, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.2 3 Pregnancy may increase the risk of violence,4 5 6 7 and the pattern of
G C, Mezey, S, Bewley
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Domestic violence [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2003
In this article author examines a definition of a family, the role of a family as a social and legal institution as well as state reaction in a situation of mal function of a family.
Kiurski Jasmina
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Domestic Violence Court: A New Model To Combat Domestic Violence Against Women In Malaysia

open access: yesUUM Journal of Legal Studies, 2016
Domestic violence is a social epidemic in Malaysia. To combat this, the Domestic Violence Act 1994 and the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 2012 has set up a mechanism via the Malaysian criminal justice system to investigate reports, prosecute the ...
Nazli Mahdzir   +3 more
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Long-Term Impact of Domestic Violence on Individuals—An Empirical Study Based on Education, Health and Life Satisfaction

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
This paper takes the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) as a sample to assess the long-term impacts of domestic violence experienced in childhood on individuals.
Liu Bo, Peng Yating
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Disclosure of domestic violence and sexual assault within the context of abortion: meta-ethnographic synthesis of qualitative studies protocol

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2017
Background One third of women will have an abortion in their lifetime (Kerr, QUT Law Rev 14:15, 2014; Aston and Bewley, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 11:163–8, 2009). These women are more likely to have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault than
Lydia Mainey   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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