Article: Health care providers and intimate partner violence: attitudes beliefs and education.(HEALTH)

Nonfatal Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victimizations against women occur in 5 to 6 million intimate relationships yearly in the United States. Violence may be physical, sexual or psychological. The physician-patient relationship is viewed as an avenue of addressing violence against women. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health care workers' attitudes about female victims of abuse, and the providers' education pertaining to IPV. The Physician's Beliefs about Victims of Spouse Abuse Scale instrument provided by Garimella et al., 2000 served as the template for this study. Attitude questions were measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale. ...

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