More than a third of women and more than a quarter of men in the United States have been raped, physically assaulted, or stalked by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, one strategy for reducing those numbers, screening for partner violence during visits to the doctor, simply isn't effective, according to two new studies.
Both studies were published today as part the Journal of the American Medical Association's special issue on violence and human rights.
In one, researchers led by Joanne Klevens, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, followed up on an earlier study on whether screenings at the doctor's office could reduce the impact of intimate partner violence on victims' quality of life. The researchers recruited 2,700 women at 10 Chicago-area hospitals to participate.
[For more of this story, written by Nathan Collins, go to http://www.psmag.com/health-an...r-violence-tall-task]
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