Promoting sound disclosure of abuse issues
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and elsewhere have shown that physicians and other health care providers can improve their ability to identify and assist victims of domestic violence by changing the way patients to ask questions. In a large study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers found a number of communication difficulties when emergency care providers discussed domestic violence with patients. Some examples: Providers often stumbled over his words, acknowledged the disclosure of abuse or abruptly changed the subject.Occasionally, showed the presence of the partner abuse in womans.The study also showed some of the best practices for communication. Follow-up questions and open questions, for example, has
proved useful in patients in the system to reveal the abuse. Patients also tend to be open to vendors showed empathy and concern or those that are bred for no medical evidence of patients, such as when the patient talks about stress, followed by. It was found that the poll - asking one question - is almost three times higher than the disclosure of patients experiences with partner abuse, according to lead author Karin V.Rhodes, MD, MS, Director of the Division of Health Policy Research at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn.Previous studies have shown that it is not open to patients may be willing to force their experiences with doctors, but information was scarce, why communication breaks down. For clues about what happens during these private interviews, the
researchers recorded 293 emergency room interactions that included an analysis of domestic violence. Seventy-seven patients disclosed experience domestic violence during the interviews. The researchers identified several strategies that seemed more timely information of abuse, highlighting the need for open-ended questions that did not use phrases such as victims of domestic violence or women need to look like a victim.Re-framed Pages: [1] 2 3