Changing the health care response to battered women: a health education approach.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Paige Hall Smith, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Numerous factors are thought to prevent the successful implementation of domestic intervention protocols and programs that are designed to encourage physicians arid -purses to identify and appropriately treat battered women. Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED model of behavior change as a guide, this study investigated baseline factors associated with clinician screening behaviors prior to its implementation, Perceived competence, a composite measure of self efficacy around specific clinically relevant behaviors, emerged as the primary predictor of ail behaviors- En addition, belief that clinicians should screen all women as part of .a routine :r story or physical examination emerged as a predictor for routine screening.
Changing the health care response to battered women: a health education approach.
PDF (Portable Document Format)
981 KB
Created on 1/1/1998
Views: 4839
Additional Information
- Publication
- Family and Community Health, 20(4): 1-18
- Language: English
- Date: 1998
- Keywords
- Battered women, Domestic violence, Enabling factors, Perceived competence, PRECEDE PROECED model, Predisposing factors, Reinforcing factors