Recent Study Does Not Support Screening for Intimate Partner Violence: Health
Care Workers Require Education to Recognize Signs of Abuse
Echo CEO
A recent study funded by Echo and led by Harriet MacMillan, a professor at McMaster University, looked at the potential benefits of universal screening in health-care settings for intimate partner violence. The study, which was published in the
"We need to dedicate our resources to the things that we know work," said Campbell. "This study shows us that screening every woman who comes into a doctor's office or emergency room is not the best use of resources. What does work is helping that nurse or that family doctor or even that orthopaedic surgeon better recognize the signs of intimate partner violence when they see it, know what questions to ask when they're concerned and feel confident that they can support a woman in finding the help she needs."
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