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“Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women”
BACKGROUND: The use of electronic media is widespread among young people and is a potential tool for the perpetration of intimate-partner violence (IPV) towards women. The aim of this study is to validate two questions focused on harassment and control by electronic tools (HCE-2) as a screening tool...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11646-3 |
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author | García, Lucía Hernández Castañeda, Myrian Pichiule Lozano, Luisa Lasheras Alcaide, Marisa Pires Gavín, María Ordobás Grande, Ana Gandarillas |
author_facet | García, Lucía Hernández Castañeda, Myrian Pichiule Lozano, Luisa Lasheras Alcaide, Marisa Pires Gavín, María Ordobás Grande, Ana Gandarillas |
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description | BACKGROUND: The use of electronic media is widespread among young people and is a potential tool for the perpetration of intimate-partner violence (IPV) towards women. The aim of this study is to validate two questions focused on harassment and control by electronic tools (HCE-2) as a screening tool for the detection of IPV in young women. METHODS: The data source was the third Community of Madrid IPV survey in 2014. The screening tool consisted of two questions with five possible answers prepared by a group of experts. As the gold standard we used the definition of intimate partner violence based on a 26- question survey. The validity indices (with 95% confidence intervals) were compared between two age groups: 18–24 and 25–29 years. RESULTS: Six hundred ninty-four women were sampled. The response rate was 68.7%, and 477 surveys were analyzed. The prevalence of IPV was 10.7% (95% CI: 8.2–13.8). HCE-2 was positive in 5.9% (95% CI: 4.1–8.4). The overall efficiency of the test was 93.5% (95% CI: 91.1–96.7), sensitivity 47.1% (95% CI: 33.7–60.8), specificity 99.1% (95% CI: 97.5–99.6), and positive predictive value 85.7% (95% CI: 67.1–94.6). The best validity indices of the questionnaire were observed in women aged 18 to 24 years: overall efficiency of the test 95.1% (95% CI: 92.6–97.7), sensitivity 62.5% (95% CI: 44.5–77.6), specificity 99.6% (95% CI: 97.0–99.9), and positive predictive value 95.2% (95% CI: 71.7–99.4). CONCLUSIONS: The existing need to improve the detection of IPV in young women and the good validity indices observed here justify the recommendation of the HCE-2 questionnaire as a screening tool in young women. |
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spelling | pubmed-84250092021-09-10 “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” García, Lucía Hernández Castañeda, Myrian Pichiule Lozano, Luisa Lasheras Alcaide, Marisa Pires Gavín, María Ordobás Grande, Ana Gandarillas BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The use of electronic media is widespread among young people and is a potential tool for the perpetration of intimate-partner violence (IPV) towards women. The aim of this study is to validate two questions focused on harassment and control by electronic tools (HCE-2) as a screening tool for the detection of IPV in young women. METHODS: The data source was the third Community of Madrid IPV survey in 2014. The screening tool consisted of two questions with five possible answers prepared by a group of experts. As the gold standard we used the definition of intimate partner violence based on a 26- question survey. The validity indices (with 95% confidence intervals) were compared between two age groups: 18–24 and 25–29 years. RESULTS: Six hundred ninty-four women were sampled. The response rate was 68.7%, and 477 surveys were analyzed. The prevalence of IPV was 10.7% (95% CI: 8.2–13.8). HCE-2 was positive in 5.9% (95% CI: 4.1–8.4). The overall efficiency of the test was 93.5% (95% CI: 91.1–96.7), sensitivity 47.1% (95% CI: 33.7–60.8), specificity 99.1% (95% CI: 97.5–99.6), and positive predictive value 85.7% (95% CI: 67.1–94.6). The best validity indices of the questionnaire were observed in women aged 18 to 24 years: overall efficiency of the test 95.1% (95% CI: 92.6–97.7), sensitivity 62.5% (95% CI: 44.5–77.6), specificity 99.6% (95% CI: 97.0–99.9), and positive predictive value 95.2% (95% CI: 71.7–99.4). CONCLUSIONS: The existing need to improve the detection of IPV in young women and the good validity indices observed here justify the recommendation of the HCE-2 questionnaire as a screening tool in young women. BioMed Central 2021-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8425009/ /pubmed/34496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11646-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article García, Lucía Hernández Castañeda, Myrian Pichiule Lozano, Luisa Lasheras Alcaide, Marisa Pires Gavín, María Ordobás Grande, Ana Gandarillas “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title | “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title_full | “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title_fullStr | “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title_full_unstemmed | “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title_short | “Validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
title_sort | “validation of a cyberbullying questionnaire as a screening tool for other forms of intimate-partner violence towards young women” |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11646-3 |
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