%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of an educational intervention for district nurses about preparedness to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence
%J Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
%D 2018
%A Sundborg, Eva
%A Törnkvist, Lena
%A Wandell, Per
%A Saleh-Stattin, Nouha
%V 32
%N 2
%P 902-913
%X 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>
%G en
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0283-9318
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/scs.12521