Macy Rebecca J, Ogbonnaya Ijeoma Nwabuzor, Martin Sandra L
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2015 Mar;21(3):416-29. doi: 10.1177/1077801214568030.
This practice note presents findings from a statewide survey of domestic violence and sexual assault agency directors (n = 80; 77% response rate), regarding their opinions about the outcome information that should be collected from victims during evaluations of five commonly provided services: legal advocacy, medical advocacy, group services, individual counseling, and shelter. The findings showed that four information types were repeatedly ranked among the most important to collect to understand whether services helped victims including victims' satisfaction with services, victims' progress toward meeting their goals, changes in the extent of violence and/or trauma that victims experienced, and changes in victims' knowledge.
