Provider response to disclosure of intimate partner violence: So are you safe from this guy?

Phillips, Jaclyn

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM

Room 3 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Jaclyn Phillips, BA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Authors:
Diane Dado, MSW, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Robert Arnold, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Richard Frankel, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine
Judy Chang, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the vast variability in which providers address IPV in the clinical setting.
Identify both positive and negative behaviors currently used by providers to manage a disclosure of IPV.
Recognize the importance of the need to develop universal training techniques to teach medical providers how to adequately respond to and manage IPV in the clinical setting.

Description:
We evaluated patient-provider conversations about IPV during a first obstetrical visit. Specifically, we focus on both helpful strategies and detrimental approaches used by providers when responding to past and current IPV disclosure. Our primary focus is on dissecting and evaluating how providers actually respond to IPV disclosure in clinical situations, because we know that a provider’s response can contribute to patient’s willingness to (1) disclose in future clinical situations or (2) utilize IPV resources.