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Domestic Violence and Primary Care

Attitudes, Practices, and Beliefs

Nancy K. Sugg, MD, MPH; Robert S. Thompson, MD; Diane C. Thompson, MS; Roland Maiuro, PhD; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH

Arch Fam Med. 1999;8:301-306.

Objective  To assess the attitudes and beliefs of the primary care provider team (physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and medical assistants) toward the identification and management of abused patients and perpetrators of domestic violence (DV).

Design  Survey of the health care team using a confidential questionnaire.

Setting and Subjects  Five primary care clinics with 240 providers at a large urban health maintenance organization.

Results  The response rate was 86% (206 respondents). Fifty percent of clinicians and 70% of nurses/assistants believed that the prevalence of DV in their practice was 1% or less; 1 in 10 clinicians and nearly half of nurses/assistants had never identified an abused person; 45% of clinicians never or seldom asked about DV when examining injured patients; and all participants were much less confident in asking about DV than about smoking or consuming alcohol. Twenty-five percent believed the abused person's personality led to the violence; 28% believed they did not have strategies to help abused persons; and 20% were concerned for their personal safety in discussing DV. Only 10% believed they had management information, but 77% had not attended any educational programs on DV in the past year.

Conclusions  This study provides important information about current knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of health care providers toward the diagnosis and management of DV. This information should prove useful to all who attempt to design clinical strategies and educational programs to address this issue.


From the Departments of Medicine (Dr Sugg), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Dr Maiuro), and Pediatrics and Epidemiology (Dr Rivara), University of Washington; Department of Preventive Care, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (Dr Thompson); and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (Ms Thompson and Dr Rivara), Seattle, Wash.


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