Intimate Partner Violence
:':? *:gRS1.2..t :RS!:4'. 4w .t^r'@t,.pSv5NX t:$..:sm.5.s'..X".}p...'...g.-X.'.ts.'S".......'5S... .......S'.t ....'.:.St:4CgNwaW Utility of STaT for the Identification of Recent Intimate Partner Violence Anuradha Paranjape, MD, MPH; Kimberly Rask, MD, PhD; and Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH Atlanta, Georgia and Boston, Massachusetts for Disease Control and Prevention report on IPV defi- Financial support: Funding for this study was made possible nitions-are physical violence; sexual violence; threat by a grant from the Emory Medical Care Foundation. Pre- of physical or sexual violence; and psychological or sented at the American Public Health Association Annual emotional abuse, including coercive tactics.' Patients Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003. Dr. Paranjape who are victims ofviolence may have experienced these was supported by the Emory Mentored Clinical Research four forms of IPV together or separately in >1 relation- Scholars Program (National Institutes of Health/National ship over their lifetime. The lifetime prevalence of IPV Center for Research Resources K12 RR 017643). Dr. Lieb- ranges from 26-54% among patients in different med- schutz was supported by a grant through the Generalist ical settings,29 while the one-year incidence of IPV Physician Faculty Scholars Program of the Robert Wood ranges from 10-15%.569 In one emergency room study, Johnson Foundation (RWJF #045452). 13% of all women seeking care did so for injuries and Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important issue with far- illnesses related to IPV2 Patients who report IPV have reaching health consequences. This study investigates the been shown to suffer from a variety of pain syndromes, utility of STaT, a three-question IPV screening tool, for recent including headaches'0 and chronic abdominopelvic IPV identification in a sample of adult women in an inner- complaints,""2 and report higher rates of posttraumatic city urgent care clinic.
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