The focus group on its own doubled the awareness of partnerabuse.
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Background: Intimate partnerabuse is very common among female patients in family practice.
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To date, valid indicators of partnerabuse of women are lacking.
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Methods: Eighteen family doctors who participated in a training program on partnerabuse were interviewed.
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In general, doctors overlook the possibility of partnerabuse.
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Among those women, the prevalence of partnerabuse went from 54 percent to six percent.
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Conclusions: Training was the most significant determinant to improve awareness and identification of intimate partnerabuse.
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Practice implications: Training on partnerabuse should be specifically tailored to change awareness, attitudes and consultation skills.
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Research has also found that partnerabuse often goes hand-in-hand with maternal depression, another risk factor for child abuse.
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One in 10 women in a relationship said they have experienced some kind of partnerabuse during the pandemic.
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But their unconsciousness is nothing more than a reflection of our society's ignorance and acceptance of intimate partnerabuse.
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Results: The interviewees evaluated the training program to be useful in raising their awareness and suspect criteria on partnerabuse.
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Even the valuable tools that already exist might be tweaked or designed differently if intimate partnerabuse were being taken into consideration.
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Aim: To investigate whether awareness of intimate partnerabuse, as well as active questioning, increase after attending focus group and training, or focus group only.
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Objective: The aim of this study was to discover the ways in which a training program on intimate partnerabuse affected a doctor's daily practice.
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Jennifer McLaughlin, a forensic psychologist at Liverpool John Moores University, has published research showing a strong association between "intimate partnerabuse" and risk of suicide.