Responding to family violence: Variations in knowledge, confidence and skills across clinical professions in a large tertiary public hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare workers play a vital role in assessing and appropriately responding to family violence. Discipline-specific differences in the readiness to respond have been indicated in the literature but no studies have directly compared multiple disciplines using the same measure. Given the imperative need for a hospital-wide, multidisciplinary approach to managing family violence, this study aimed to compare and contrast clinician perceived levels of knowledge, confidence and clinical readiness to manage disclosures of family violence across major professional groups in a tier 1, tertiary adult trauma hospital in Australia.

Methods

This prospective cross-sectional study implemented a brief questionnaire to explore self-reported knowledge, confidence and clinical

SUBMITTER: Withiel TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7958155 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature