Citation

McFarlane J, Pennings J, Liu F, Gilroy H, Nava A, Maddoux JA, Montalvo-Liendo N, Paulson R. Violence Against Women 2016; 22(2): 189-205.

Affiliation

Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215599843

PMID

26270386

Abstract

To develop a tool to predict risk for return to a shelter, 150 women with children, exiting a domestic violence shelter, were evaluated every 4 months for 24 months to determine risk factors for returning to a shelter. The study identified four risk factors, including danger for murder, woman's age (i.e., older women), tangible support (i.e., access to money, transportation), and child witness to verbal abuse of the mother. An easy to use, quick triage tool with a weighted score was derived, which can identify with 90% accuracy abused women with children most likely to return to shelters.

Language: en