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O'Doherty, Lorna Jane

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM

Room 4 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Lorna Jane O'Doherty, PhD, Violence and Interpersonal Aggression special interest group, Coventry University

Authors:
Ann R. Taket, BA(Hons), MSc, Deakin University
Jodie Valpied, MEd, The University of Melbourne
Kelsey L. Hegarty, MBBS, FRACGP, PhD, The University of Melbourne

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Have increased awareness of the factors that may promote or impede women to take up an offer of brief counseling for intimate partner violence from the family doctor.
Have increased understanding of the value of undertaking process evaluation as part of partner violence intervention trials, as well as awareness of potentially useful approaches to such evaluations.
Have increased awareness of how the research process itself may influence outcomes in partner violence interventions.

Description:
Counselling interventions in health care settings for women identified as exposed to intimate partner violence are increasingly recognised as part of a response to addressing this global public health problem. The current study aimed to identify factors involved in women’s engagement with a counselling intervention as part of a trial in primary care; and develop recommendations to inform future interventions for abused women in health care settings.

"I haven't got a broken arm, I've got a broken heart!" a qualitative investigation of uptake of an intervention for women exposed to intimate partner violence