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- Title
Defining Appropriate Stages of Change for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors.
- Authors
Burke, Jessica Griffin; Mahoney, Patricia; Gielen, Andrea; McDonnell, Karen A.; O'Campo, Patricia
- Abstract
Recent research suggests that the transtheoretical model of behavior change is a promising approach for interventions addressing women's experiences of intimate partner violence. This study explores the distribution of abused women across the stages of change for (a) staying safe from intimate partner violence and (b) leaving an abusive relationship. It explores the relationship between stage assignment and other indicators of a woman's stage (i.e., safety behaviors and desire for services). Quantitative surveys were conducted with 96 low-income, urban abused women recruited from six health care clinics. The findings call into question the appropriateness of using a staging algorithm that uses one "global" question about keeping safe and suggest that staging questions focused on a single action stage (e.g., leaving) are also problematic. In conclusion, additional work remains to be done to develop and validate quantitative measures of stages of change for survivors of intimate partner violence and to design, implement, and evaluated stage based, tailored intimate partner violence interventions.
- Subjects
INTIMATE partner violence; DOMESTIC violence; MARITAL violence; VICTIMS of domestic violence; ABUSED women; CRIME victims
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.24.1.36