Thackeray Jonathan, Stelzner Sarah, Downs Stephen M, Miller Carleen
Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2007 Jun;22(6):659-70. doi: 10.1177/0886260507300206.
The barriers that professionals face when screening victims for intimate partner violence (IPV) are well studied. The specific barriers that victims face however when being screened are not. The authors sought to identify characteristics of the screener and screening environment that make a victim feel more or less comfortable when disclosing a history of IPV. One hundred forty self-reported female victims of IPV completed a survey regarding their experiences with screening and degree of comfort with certain traits of the screener and the screening environment. Women demonstrated a preference to be screened by a woman, someone of the same race, a provider aged 30 to 50 years, and without anyone else present. Screeners should be aware of characteristics that impact victim comfort and should provide multiple opportunities for women to disclose IPV in a safe, respectful, and culturally effective environment.
专业人员在筛查亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）受害者时所面临的障碍已得到充分研究。然而，受害者在接受筛查时所面临的具体障碍却未得到研究。作者试图确定筛查人员和筛查环境的特征，这些特征会使受害者在披露IPV病史时感到或多或少的舒适。140名自我报告的IPV女性受害者完成了一项关于她们的筛查经历以及对筛查人员的某些特质和筛查环境的舒适程度的调查。女性表现出更倾向于由女性、同种族的人、30至50岁的提供者进行筛查，并且希望没有其他人在场。筛查人员应意识到影响受害者舒适度的特征，并应为女性提供多次机会，以便她们在安全、尊重和文化有效的环境中披露IPV情况。
