ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2013
Clinical utility of an intimate partner violence screening tool for female VHA patients.
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- Opportunities to More Comprehensively Assess Sexual Violence Experience in Veterans Health Administration Medical Records Data.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Health Service Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence among Military Personnel and Veterans: A Framework and Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Assessing the Veterans Health Administration's response to intimate partner violence among women: protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness trial.Implementation science : IS · 2020Article
- Sociodemographic and Obstetric Determinants of Antenatal Depression in Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia: Facility Based Case-Control Study.International journal of women's health · 2020Article
- Trajectories of violent victimization predicting PTSD and comorbidities among urban ethnic/racial minorities.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2020Article
- Children emotional and behavioural problems and its association with maternal depression in Jimma town, southwest Ethiopia.General psychiatry · 2020Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Experiences Among Men Living with HIV in Rural Appalachia.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Screening Programs in the Veterans Health Administration: Informing Scale-up of Successful Practices.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- An Evidence Map of the Women Veterans' Health Research Literature (2008-2015).Journal of general internal medicine · 2017Review
- Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Women Veterans who Utilize Veterans Health Administration Primary Care.Journal of general internal medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesFemale Veterans are at high risk for physical, sexual, and psychological forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization. This study evaluated the accuracy of a brief IPV victimization screening tool for use with female Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients.
designParticipants completed a paper-and-pencil mail survey that included the four-item Hurt/Insult/Threaten/Scream (HITS) and the 39-item Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS-2). Operating characteristics, including sensitivity and specificity, were calculated using the CTS-2 as the reference standard for past-year IPV.
participantsFemale veterans from a roster of randomly selected female patients of the New England VA Healthcare System. Women must have reported being in an intimate relationship in the past year to be included. MAIN MEASURES: Primary measures included the HITS (index test) and the CTS-2 (reference standard). KEY
resultsThis study included 160 women. The percentage of women who reported past-year IPV, as measured by any physical assault, sexual coercion, and/or severe psychological aggression on the CTS-2, was 28.8 %. The receiver-operator characteristic curve demonstrated that the HITS cutoff score of 6 maximizes the true positives while minimizing the false positives in this sample. The sensitivity of the optimal HITS cutoff score of 6 was 78 % (95 % CI 64 % to 88 %), specificity 80 % (95 % CI 71 % to 87 %), positive likelihood ratio 3.9 (95 % CI 2.61 to 5.76), negative likelihood ratio 0.27 (95 % CI 0.16 to 0.47), positive predictive value 0.61 (95 % CI 0.47, 0.73), and negative predictive value 0.90 (95 % CI 0.82, 0.95).
conclusionsFor a low-burden screen, the HITS demonstrated good accuracy in detecting past-year IPV relative to the CTS-2 in a sample of female VHA patients with an optimal cutpoint of 6. The HITS may help VHA and other health-care providers detect past-year IPV and deliver appropriate care for female Veterans.
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