Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) among patients with psychiatric conditions, detection rates are low. Limited knowledge and skills on DVA in mental healthcare (MHC) professionals might contribute to poor identification. AIMS: To assess the level of, and fa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.8 |
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author | Ruijne, Roos E. Kamperman, Astrid M. Trevillion, Kylee Garofalo, Carlo Jongejan, Femke E. Bogaerts, Stefan Howard, Louise M. Mulder, Niels L. |
author_facet | Ruijne, Roos E. Kamperman, Astrid M. Trevillion, Kylee Garofalo, Carlo Jongejan, Femke E. Bogaerts, Stefan Howard, Louise M. Mulder, Niels L. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) among patients with psychiatric conditions, detection rates are low. Limited knowledge and skills on DVA in mental healthcare (MHC) professionals might contribute to poor identification. AIMS: To assess the level of, and factors associated with, DVA knowledge and skills among MHC professionals. METHOD: A total of 278 professionals in Dutch MHC institutions completed a survey assessing factual knowledge, perceived knowledge, perceived skills and attitudes about DVA. RESULTS: On average, low scores were reported for perceived skills and knowledge. MHC professionals in primary care scored higher than those working with individuals with severe mental illness (P<0.005). Levels of factual knowledge were higher; levels of attitudes moderate. Previous training was positively associated with skills (odds ratios (OR) = 3.0) and attitudes (OR = 2.7). Years of work was negatively associated with factual knowledge (OR = 0.97). Larger case-loads predicted higher scores on skills (OR = 2.1). CONCLUSIONS: Training is needed, particularly for clinicians working with patients with severe mental illness. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. |
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spelling | pubmed-64692332019-04-24 Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study Ruijne, Roos E. Kamperman, Astrid M. Trevillion, Kylee Garofalo, Carlo Jongejan, Femke E. Bogaerts, Stefan Howard, Louise M. Mulder, Niels L. BJPsych Open Papers BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) among patients with psychiatric conditions, detection rates are low. Limited knowledge and skills on DVA in mental healthcare (MHC) professionals might contribute to poor identification. AIMS: To assess the level of, and factors associated with, DVA knowledge and skills among MHC professionals. METHOD: A total of 278 professionals in Dutch MHC institutions completed a survey assessing factual knowledge, perceived knowledge, perceived skills and attitudes about DVA. RESULTS: On average, low scores were reported for perceived skills and knowledge. MHC professionals in primary care scored higher than those working with individuals with severe mental illness (P<0.005). Levels of factual knowledge were higher; levels of attitudes moderate. Previous training was positively associated with skills (odds ratios (OR) = 3.0) and attitudes (OR = 2.7). Years of work was negatively associated with factual knowledge (OR = 0.97). Larger case-loads predicted higher scores on skills (OR = 2.1). CONCLUSIONS: Training is needed, particularly for clinicians working with patients with severe mental illness. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. Cambridge University Press 2019-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6469233/ /pubmed/31068239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.8 Text en © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. |
spellingShingle | Papers Ruijne, Roos E. Kamperman, Astrid M. Trevillion, Kylee Garofalo, Carlo Jongejan, Femke E. Bogaerts, Stefan Howard, Louise M. Mulder, Niels L. Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title | Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title_full | Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title_short | Mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the Netherlands: cross-sectional study |
title_sort | mental health professionals' knowledge, skills and attitudes on domestic violence and abuse in the netherlands: cross-sectional study |
topic | Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.8 |
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