Background
The role of healthcare services in addressing intimate partner violence
Independent domestic violence advisors (IDVA) within hospital settings
Aim
Data collection
Analysis
Results
Characteristics of survivors accessing hospital IDVA services
Hospital IDVA | Community IDVA | |
---|---|---|
% | % | |
Gender (ns = 677, 3506) | ||
Male | 5.1 | 4.2 |
Female | 93.6 | 96.2 |
Sexual orientation (ns = 678, 3527) | ||
Lesbian/gay/bisexual | 2.0 | 2.2 |
Heterosexual | 98.0 | 90.2 |
Age (ns = 686, 3529) | ||
M (SD) / [CI] | 35.6 (13.1) [34.6, 35.4] | 34.9 (11.8) [34.5, 35.3] |
Over 55a | 10.1** | 6.8 |
Ethnicity (ns = 689, 3523) | ||
Black/minority ethnic | 15.3 | 17.1 |
White/British/Irish | 84.2 | 77.5 |
Relationship status (ns = 689, 3541) | ||
Current partner | 53.4*** | 31.6 |
Ex-partner | 35.3 | 59.7*** |
Children in the household (n = 692, 3544) | ||
Children at home | 51.1 | 67.2*** |
Pregnant | 17.1*** | 6.3 |
Household income (ns = 277, 1429) | ||
High £34,000+ p.a. | 9.1*** | 4.2 |
Middle £33,999–15,599 p.a | 15.1 | 12.4 |
Low 15,549 and below | 49.4 | 55.3 |
Living arrangements (ns = 692, 3536) | ||
Cohabiting | 48.3*** | 29.7 |
Living separately | 43.4 | 62.2*** |
Survivors’ complex needs (ns = 667, 3474) | ||
Alcohol misuse | 18.4*** | 8.3 |
Drug misuse | 11.2*** | 5.2 |
Financial difficulties | 40.1*** | 30.3 |
Disability | 12.2*** | 8.3 |
Mental health | 57.3*** | 35.2 |
Suicidal ideation / behaviours | 36.3*** | 16.2 |
Self-harm | 43.5*** | 23.5 |
Perpetrator information (ns = 686, 3545) | ||
Previously abusive to family or other partner | 79.3*** | 67.7 |
Previous criminal record for domestic violence | 36.6 | 45.2** |
Multiple perpetrators | 14.3*** | 8.3 |
Length of time survivor experienced abuse (months) (n = 692, 3544) | ||
Mdn (IQR) | 30.0 (60.1) | 36.3 (72) |
Type of abuse experienced (ns = 683, 3537) | ||
Severe physical | 46.6** | 41.2 |
Severe sexual | 14.3** | 10.2 |
Severe controlling coercive behaviour | 47.3 | 47.1 |
Severe harassment and stalking | 30.8 | 34.1 |
Abuse that is escalating in severity or frequency | 57.2 | 68.3* |
At high risk (professional judgement) | 53.1 | 58.2* |
Identifying and referring survivors of domestic abuse across healthcare settings
Hospital IDVA | Community IDVA | |
---|---|---|
% | % | |
Help seeking (ns = 488, 3211) | ||
Saw GP for any reason | 88.3*** | 77.2 |
Called the police | 58.7 | 77.2*** |
Attended Accident and Emergency as a result of abuse | 56.2*** | 16.3 |
Attended ED by ambulance as a result of the abuse | 37.3** | 16.2 |
Hospital IDVA survivors reasons for accessing ED (n = 103)a | ||
Visit because of physical injuries of abuser | 13.4 | – |
Visit for mental health reason | 50.6 | – |
Visit to ED after an overdose | 45.7 | – |
Hospital IDVA | Community IDVA | |
---|---|---|
% | % | |
Referral route to IDVA service T1 (ns = 283, 2430) | ||
Health | 84.6*** | 2.3 |
Police | 9.6 | 45.3*** |
Self | 2.2 | 23.4*** |
Hospital department referrals to hospital IDVA T1 (n = 170)a | ||
ED | 62.3 | – |
Maternity, ante- and neo-natal units | 16.8 | – |
Psychiatry / mental health | 7.3 | – |
Hospital staff referrals to hospital IDVA T1 (n = 164)a | ||
Nurse | 45.6 | – |
Consultant/Doctor/Junior Doctor | 18.2 | – |
Midwife | 13.7 | – |
Psychologist/Psychiatrist | 8.4 | – |
Ward Sister | 4.5 | – |
Referral route out of IDVA service T2 (ns = 476, 2430) | 52.1 | 83.7*** |
Police | 66.0*** | 15.3 |
Housing | 22.9* | 14.9 |
Mental health | 34.0** | 3.3 |
Substance services | 3.2 | 1.6 |
Adult social services |
Length and type of support
Hospital IDVA | Community IDVA | |
---|---|---|
Case length (N = 521, 2259) | ||
Mdn (IQR) in months | 1.7 (2.7) | 2.4 (3.1)*** |
Frequency of contact with IDVA (ns = 533, 2376) | ||
Mdn (IQR) | 8.0 (9.0) | 8.0 (11.0) |
% < 5 contacts | 21.2 | 40.6 |
% > 5 contacts | 78.4 | 60.3 |
Types of support accessed (ns = 692, 2722) | ||
% Safety planning | 72.3*** | 63.4 |
% Health and wellbeing | 67.7*** | 56.3 |
% Police | 47.8* | 41.2 |
% Housing | 45.3*** | 31.4 |
% Marac | 34.4 | 32.3 |
% Children | 24.5 | 24.6 |
% Finance / benefits | 17.2* | 13.2 |
% Civil orders | 5.2 | 14.3*** |
% Probation | 3.3 | 5.1 |
% Criminal court | 1.1 | 4.4*** |
Health outcomes
Time one (T1) | Time two (T2) | UK population | ||||
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Health measures hospital IDVA sample (n = 64, 21) |
M
| SD / [95% CI] |
M
| SD / [95% CI] |
M
| SD |
Physical health (SF12-PCS) | 49.2 | 12.8 [47.1, 53.9] | 48.7 | 11.4 [45.9, 54.0] | 50.9 | 9.4 |
Mental health (SF12 - MCS) | 32.3 | 12.2 [29.5, 34.2] | 39.6 | 12.8 [34.9, 44.3] | 52.1 | 8.7 |
Anxiety (HADS - Anxiety) | 12.2 | 5.1 [10.6,13.5] | 11.4 | 6.3 [10.6,12.6] | 6.7a | 4.2 |
Depression (HADS - Depression) | 10.5 | 5.2 [7.9, 12.2] | 8.6 | 6.1 [7.9, 10.0] | 5.5* | 4.0 |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | % | % | ||||
62.6 | 48.6 | |||||
M (SD) / [95% CI] | 2.1 | 1.65 [1.7, 2.5] | 2.0 | 1.5 [1.4, 2.6] |
DVA outcomes
Hospital IDVA | Community IDVA | |||
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DVA outcomes at T2 | % | % | ||
Cessation of abuse (ns = 476, 2722) | ||||
% ceased | 62.4** | 48.3 | ||
% ongoing | 10.2 | 18.4 | ||
% don’t’ know / missing | 27.4 | 33.3 | ||
Reductions in reported abuse | ||||
% reporting physical abuse | 86.2** | 71.2 | ||
% reporting sexual abuse | 82.4* | 73.3 | ||
% reporting harassment and stalking | 75.6** | 52.4 | ||
% reporting jealous coercive and controlling behaviour | 70.1* | 52.2 | ||
Survivor appraisal of safety | ||||
% much safer than before | 54.2* | 50.1 | ||
% somewhat safer than before | 30.1 | 36.4 | ||
% no safer than before | 7.2 | 9.1 | ||
% don’t know/missing | 8.5 | 4.4 | ||
Reductions in abuse between T1 & T2 | ||||
Report of abuse between intake and exit (ns = 476, 2722) | T1 | T2 | T1 | T2 |
% physical abuse | 70.3 | 10.2*** | 60.3 | 18.4** |
% sexual abuse | 25.4 | 5.3*** | 19.2 | 5.8*** |
% harassment and stalking | 66.6 | 17.4** | 62.2 | 30.1* |
% jealous coercive and controlling behaviour | 87.5 | 18.5* | 85.4 | 40.2* |
Hospital IDVA - Survivor felt safer (1) vs not safer/missing (0) | Community IDVA - Survivor felt safer (1) vs not safer/missing (0) | |||||||||||||||
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95% C.I.for EXP(B) | 95% C.I.for EXP(B) | |||||||||||||||
B | S.E. | Wald | df | Sig. | AOR | Lower | Upper | B | S.E. | Wald | df | Sig. | AOR | Lower | Upper | |
6+ interventions accessed (1) vs 0–1 accessed (0) | .84 | .25 | 10.8 | 1 | .001 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 3.8 | .59 | .12 | 23.903 | 1 | .000 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.3 |
5+ contacts with IDVA (1) vs < 5 (0) | .71 | .27 | 6.6 | 1 | .010 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 3.4 | .37 | .13 | 8.034 | 1 | .005 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
Length of case (days) | .00 | .00 | 7.0 | 1 | .008 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | .00 | .00 | .011 | 1 | .917 | 1.0 | .99 | 1.0 |
Reported suicidal ideation/behaviour T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.77 | .24 | 10.2 | 1 | .001 | .46 | .28 | .74 | −.19 | .15 | 1.481 | 1 | .224 | .82 | .60 | 1.1 |
Any abuse escalating in severity and frequency at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.36 | .29 | 1.5 | 1 | .219 | .69 | .38 | 1.2 | .20 | .13 | 2.143 | 1 | .143 | 1.2 | .93 | 1.5 |
Physical abuse at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.07 | .27 | .08 | 1 | .775 | .92 | .53 | 1.5 | −.12 | .12 | .913 | 1 | .339 | .88 | .68 | 1.1 |
Harassment and stalking at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.08 | .25 | .10 | 1 | .752 | .92 | .56 | 1.5 | −.00 | .11 | .002 | 1 | .968 | .99 | .78 | 1.2 |
Jealous coercive and controlling behaviour at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | .11 | .36 | .10 | 1 | .750 | 1.1 | .54 | 2.3 | −.10 | .16 | .388 | 1 | .533 | .90 | .66 | 1.2 |
Drug/alcohol misuse at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.04 | .32 | .02 | 1 | .897 | .95 | .50 | 1.8 | −.05 | .22 | .049 | 1 | .825 | .95 | .60 | 1.4 |
Mental health issues at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.48 | .36 | 1.7 | 1 | .186 | .61 | .29 | 1.2 | −.51 | .25 | 4.023 | 1 | .045 | .59 | .36 | .98 |
Perpetrator drug/alcohol misuse at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.39 | .37 | 1.1 | 1 | .292 | .67 | .32 | 1.3 | .15 | .18 | .769 | 1 | .381 | 1.1 | .82 | 1.6 |
Perpetrator mental health at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | .36 | .40 | .81 | 1 | .368 | 1.4 | .65 | 3.1 | .09 | .18 | .268 | 1 | .605 | 1.1 | .76 | 1.5 |
Perpetrator financial issues at T1 (1) vs none recorded (0) | −.33 | .40 | .68 | 1 | .408 | .71 | .32 | 1.5 | −.05 | .18 | .073 | 1 | .787 | .95 | .66 | 1.3 |
Constant | .41 | .43 | .93 | 1 | .333 | 1.5 | .94 | .20 | 22.2 | 1 | .000 | 2.5 |
Health resource use and cost analysis
Hospital survivors n = 76 | Community survivors n = 38 | Hospital survivors T1 n = 29 | Hospital survivors T2 n = 29 | ||||||||||
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Health resource | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | Diff. T1 - T2 |
GP surgery consultation | 4.9** | 4.9 [3.7, 6.0] | 239 | 2.9 | 3.2 [1.8, 3.9] | 142 | 4.0 | 4.3 [2.5, 5.8] | 198 | 5.3 | 4.9 [3.4, 7.2] | 261 | -£63 |
GP phone consultation | 1.3 | 4.2 [0.3, 2.3] | 27 | 0.5 | 1.2 [0.1, 0.9] | 10 | 1.8 | 5.6 [0.2, 4.0] | 37 | 1.2 | 2.2 [0.3, 2.0] | 24 | £13 |
Practice Nurse consultation | 2.0 | 7.4 [0.2, 3.6] | 24 | 0.7 | 1.5 [0.3, 1.2] | 9 | 1.5 | 4.8 [0.2, 3.4] | 19 | 1.1 | 2.0 [0.3, 1.9] | 14 | £5 |
Community Psychiatric Nurse | 0.9 | 2.8 [0.2, 1.5] | 33 | 0.0 | 0.2 [0.03, 0.8] | 1 | 0.7 | 2.7 [0.3, 1.8] | 28 | 1.7 | 5.4 [0.3, 3.6] | 63 | -£35 |
Psychiatrist | 0.4 | 1.2 [0.1, 0.7] | 45 | 0.0 | 0.2 [0.03, 0.8] | 3 | 0.5 | 1.2 [0.0, 0.9] | 50 | 0.9 | 4.3 [0.7, 2.5] | 100 | -£50 |
Clinical Psychologist | 0.8 | 3.8 [0.1, 1.6] | 160 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 5.9 [0.7, 3.8] | 325 | 1.7 | 5.5 [0.4, 3.7] | 353 | -£28 |
Health Visitor | 2.0 | 9.2 [0.2, 4.9] | 106 | 1.0 | 3.0 [0.3, 1.9] | 53 | 0.7 | 1.9 [0.0, 1.5] | 38 | 0.5 | 1.8 [0.2, 1.1] | 25 | £13 |
Counsellor | 3.0** | 14.6 [0.4, 6.4] | 138 | 1.5 | 4.6 [0.0, 3.0] | 69 | 2.0 | 6.8 [0.5, 4.6] | 92 | 2.1 | 5.3 [0.1, 4.1] | 98 | -£6 |
Psychotherapist | 0.1 | 0.9 [0.1, 0.3] | 17 | 0.0 | – | – | 0.3 | 1.4 [0.3, 0.8] | 42 | 0.0 | – | 0 | £42 |
Family therapist | 0.0 | – | – | 0.1 | 0.3 [0.0, 0.1] | 8 | 0.0 | – | 0 | 0.1 | 0.7 [0.1, 0.4] | 21 | -£21 |
Drug/alcohol support | 0.9 | 3.5 [0.0, 1.6] | 66 | 0.2 | 0.7 [0.0, 0.4] | 12 | 1.1 | 3.2 [0.1, 2.3] | 83 | 1.5 | 5.0 [0.4, 3.4] | 120 | -£37 |
In-patient stay per night | 3.6** | 10.3 [1.2, 6.0] | 997 | 0.3** | 1.2 [0.0, 0.7] | 94 | 4.5 | 14.2 [0.8, 10.0] | 1238 | 0.0** | – | 0 | £1238 |
Outpatient appointments | 1.3 | 2.4 [0.7, 1.7] | 142 | 0.4 | 1.2 [0.0, 0.8] | 50 | 0.8 | 1.9 [0.3, 1.1] | 93 | 2.7 | 6.2 [0.3, 5.0] | 296 | -£203 |
A&E attendance | 1.0** | 1.4 [0.6, 1.3] | 118 | 0.4 | 0.6 [0.1, 0.5] | 46 | 0.9 | 1.4 [0.3, 1.4] | 107 | 0.4 | 0.9 [0.0, 0.7] | 50 | £57 |
Ambulance trip | 0.6* | 1.3 [0.3, 0.1] | 136 | 0.2* | 0.4 [0.0, 0.3] | 36 | 0.6 | 1.4 [0.0, 1.0] | 131 | 0.1 | 0.5 [0.0, 0.3] | 31 | £100 |
Total (95% CI) | £2248 (£1646 to £2977) | £533 (£373 to £713) | £2481 (£1731 to £3629) | £1456 (£192 to £2063 | £1025 (£182 to £2030) |