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The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights violence against women as a priority health issue, with one in three women globally experiencing physical and/or sexual violence from a partner.
Women experiencing such violence often present in health settings and require wide ranging medical services. Since the late 1990s, many health professional associations have published clinician guidelines on how to identify and respond to women who have been abused, and health professionals are increasingly required to undertake screening in accordance with national health policies.
There are, however, many barriers that influence the capacity of women to disclose such events and that impact on the effectiveness of screening. Intimate partner violence is therefore problematic when traditional screening criteria are applied because it is a complex social phenomenon rather than a disease.
I this review, Feder et al examined whether screening women for intimate partner violence in healthcare settings is effective, and cost effective, and also safe for the woman who discloses the violence.
