@article{ref1,
title="Impact of an educational intervention for district nurses about preparedness to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence",
journal="Scandinavian journal of caring sciences",
year="2018",
author="Sundborg, Eva and Törnkvist, Lena and Wandell, Per and Saleh-Stattin, Nouha",
volume="32",
number="2",
pages="902-913",
abstract="AIM: To evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on the preparedness of district nurses at primary healthcare centres to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence. <br><br>METHODOLOGICAL DESIGN: An observational quasi-experimental study. Participants were divided into an intervention group (n = 117) and a control group (n = 204), both from the eastern part of Sweden. A group of nurses from across Sweden (the 'national group,' n = 217) was also recruited. The Violence Against Women Health Care Provider Survey was used pre- and 1 year postintervention to measure the intervention's impact. This survey, which measured preparedness, included eight factors: practitioner preparedness, self-confidence, lack of control, comfort following disclosure, professional support, practice pressures, abuse inquiry and consequences of asking. anova, the paired Wilcoxon test, the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to analyse the data. <br><br>FINDINGS: Pre-intervention preparedness was equal in all three groups. In the intervention group, preparedness related to the factor practitioner lack of control increased (p = 0.003), but a comparison of change between the intervention and control groups showed no significant intervention effect (p = 0.069). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that the intervention had a low impact on district nurses' preparedness. The educational intervention must be adjusted; a main focus of changes should be the addition of continuing postintervention supervision and support.<br><br>© 2017 Nordic College of Caring Science.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0283-9318",
doi="10.1111/scs.12521",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/scs.12521"
}