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Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?

INTRODUCTION: Women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) do not tend to go very frequently to formal support services. The objective of this study is to identify barriers related to the accessibility, acceptability, equity, appropriateness and effectiveness of IPV services from the perspecti...

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Autores principales: Durán‐Martín, Eva, Vives‐Cases, Carmen, Otero‐García, Laura, Castellanos‐Torres, Esther, Sanz‐Barbero, Belen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35199409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13453
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author Durán‐Martín, Eva
Vives‐Cases, Carmen
Otero‐García, Laura
Castellanos‐Torres, Esther
Sanz‐Barbero, Belen
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Otero‐García, Laura
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description INTRODUCTION: Women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) do not tend to go very frequently to formal support services. The objective of this study is to identify barriers related to the accessibility, acceptability, equity, appropriateness and effectiveness of IPV services from the perspective of the professionals working in the IPV public services. METHODS: A qualitative study was carried out in the Madrid region based on 13 semi‐structured interviews of young women who had survived IPV as well as 17 interviews with professionals. A thematic content analysis was performed, guided by the dimensions proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for friendly services for young people. RESULTS: From the perspective of the young women and professionals, barriers were identified for all the dimensions of the WHO's friendly services for young people: accessibility: lack of information and support from the social setting, scarce dissemination of the services, economic cost, non‐adapted schedules, inadequate locations or lack of services in settings close to young people; acceptability: lack of protocols to guarantee confidentiality, lack of speed in the provision of services or their referral, unwelcoming environments or unsympathetic professional malpractice; equity: discriminatory professional attitudes towards groups with different social status and lack of protocols to ensure the care of these groups; appropriateness: unmet needs and lack of multidisciplinary teams; and effectiveness: shortage of time, resources, competent professionals, protocols and coordination. CONCLUSIONS: Strategies are needed to make the necessary changes to promote friendly services for the care of young people exposed to IPV. Additionally, it must be emphasized that resources are needed to raise awareness and disseminate IPV services, as well as to train professionals in this area. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: This paper is based on professionals' perspectives of public IPV‐related services of different areas such as Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Psychiatry, Social Education and young women exposed to IPV. They either work in the public administration at the local, regional or state level or in NGOs in Spain.
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spelling pubmed-91224262022-06-01 Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region? Durán‐Martín, Eva Vives‐Cases, Carmen Otero‐García, Laura Castellanos‐Torres, Esther Sanz‐Barbero, Belen Health Expect Original Articles INTRODUCTION: Women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) do not tend to go very frequently to formal support services. The objective of this study is to identify barriers related to the accessibility, acceptability, equity, appropriateness and effectiveness of IPV services from the perspective of the professionals working in the IPV public services. METHODS: A qualitative study was carried out in the Madrid region based on 13 semi‐structured interviews of young women who had survived IPV as well as 17 interviews with professionals. A thematic content analysis was performed, guided by the dimensions proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for friendly services for young people. RESULTS: From the perspective of the young women and professionals, barriers were identified for all the dimensions of the WHO's friendly services for young people: accessibility: lack of information and support from the social setting, scarce dissemination of the services, economic cost, non‐adapted schedules, inadequate locations or lack of services in settings close to young people; acceptability: lack of protocols to guarantee confidentiality, lack of speed in the provision of services or their referral, unwelcoming environments or unsympathetic professional malpractice; equity: discriminatory professional attitudes towards groups with different social status and lack of protocols to ensure the care of these groups; appropriateness: unmet needs and lack of multidisciplinary teams; and effectiveness: shortage of time, resources, competent professionals, protocols and coordination. CONCLUSIONS: Strategies are needed to make the necessary changes to promote friendly services for the care of young people exposed to IPV. Additionally, it must be emphasized that resources are needed to raise awareness and disseminate IPV services, as well as to train professionals in this area. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: This paper is based on professionals' perspectives of public IPV‐related services of different areas such as Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Psychiatry, Social Education and young women exposed to IPV. They either work in the public administration at the local, regional or state level or in NGOs in Spain. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-24 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9122426/ /pubmed/35199409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13453 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Castellanos‐Torres, Esther
Sanz‐Barbero, Belen
Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title_full Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title_fullStr Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title_full_unstemmed Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title_short Do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the Madrid region?
title_sort do we have friendly services to meet the needs of young women exposed to intimate partner violence in the madrid region?
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35199409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13453
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