Intimate Partner Violence Screening in the Prenatal Period: Variation by State, Insurance, and Patient Characteristics
Publication Date
6-2019
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology
Keywords
Prenatal care, Intimate partner violence, Demographic variation
Abstract
Objective To measure the proportion of women screened for IPV during prenatal care; to assess the predictors of prenatal IPV screening. Methods We use the CDC’s 2012 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, representative of births in 24 states and New York City (N = 28,581). We calculated descriptive and logistic regressions, weighted to deal with state-clustered observations. Results 49.2% of women in our sample reported being screened for IPV while pregnant. There were higher screening rates among women of color, and those who had not completed high school, never been married, received WIC benefits, initiated prenatal care in the first trimester, and were publicly insured. State screening rates varied (29.9–62.9%). Among states, mandated perinatal depression screening or training was positively associated with IPV screening. 3.6% of women in our sample reported prenatal IPV but were not screened during pregnancy. Conclusions for Practice Current efforts have not led to universal screening. We need to better understand when and why providers do not screen pregnant patients for IPV.
Copyright Date
1-2-2019
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Halpern-Meekin, S., Costanzo, M., Ehrenthal, D., & Rhoades, G. (2019). Intimate partner violence screening in the prenatal period: Variation by state, insurance, and patient characteristics. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23(6), 756-767. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-018-2692-x
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application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
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789 KB
Publication Title
Maternal and Child Health Journal
Volume
23
Issue
6
First Page
756
Last Page
767
ISSN
1573-6628
Recommended Citation
Halpern-Meekin, Sarah; Costanzo, Molly; Ehrenthal, Deborah; and Rhoades, Galena K., "Intimate Partner Violence Screening in the Prenatal Period: Variation by State, Insurance, and Patient Characteristics" (2019). Psychology: Faculty Scholarship. 133.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/psychology_faculty/133
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-018-2692-x