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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Copyright is held by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as:

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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Received from CHORUS

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application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

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12 pgs

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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

PubMed ID

30600519



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