@article{ref1,
title="Referring abused women: does police assistance decrease abuse?",
journal="Clinical nursing research",
year="2001",
author="Willson, P. and McFarlane, Judith M. and Lemmey, D. and Malecha, A.",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="69-81",
abstract="To evaluate if abused women's use of the police reduced further violence experienced, 90 abused women were interviewed at a large urban police department and followed for 6 months. Frequency and severity of violence as well as danger of homicide were measured before and at 3 and 6 months after women sought police help. Women seeking police help had significantly reduced threats of abuse (F = 124.62, df = 2,81; p < .0005), actual abuse (F = 90.11, df = 2,81; p < .0005), and danger of being killed (F = 188.69, df = 2,81; p < .0005) by her intimate partner. Bonferroni post hoc tests showed that significantly fewer threats of abuse, physical abusive acts, and risk indicators for homicide had occurred from prefiling to 3 months (p <.0005) and prefiling to 6 months (p <.0005). The data indicate that referring abused women to the police is an appropriate intervention.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1054-7738",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}