TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The Healing after Gender-Based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): an instrument to measure recovery progress in women-identifying survivors
JO  - Global qualitative nursing research
A1  - Sinko, Laura
A1  - Schaitkin, Chris
A1  - Saint Arnault, Denise
SP  - 2333393621996679
EP  - 2333393621996679
VL  - 8
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2333-3936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393621996679
ID  - ref1
ER  -