@article{ref1,
title="The Healing after Gender-Based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): an instrument to measure recovery progress in women-identifying survivors",
journal="Global qualitative nursing research",
year="2021",
author="Sinko, Laura and Schaitkin, Chris and Saint Arnault, Denise",
volume="8",
number="",
pages="2333393621996679-2333393621996679",
abstract="Current literature has primarily equated gender-based violence recovery with an improvement of physical or mental health symptoms, causing a gap in our understanding of the impact of interventions beyond the amelioration of adverse symptomology. The purpose of this research was to create an instrument to holistically measure gender-based violence recovery based on survivor healing goals. Ethnographic interviews were conducted in women-identifying gender-based violence survivors (ages 18-76) to determine healing domains and develop items using survivor language (n = 56). Focus groups with academic and community experts (n = 12) and cognitive interviews with gender-based violence survivors (n = 12) were conducted to ensure content and face validity, as well as to evaluate acceptability. This yielded a 31-item instrument to measure healing progress on a 5-point Likert scale. The Healing after Gender-based Violence Scale has the potential to highlight survivor strength and growth while more accurately measuring their recovery process based on survivor goals and desires.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2333-3936",
doi="10.1177/2333393621996679",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393621996679"
}