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. 2023 Jan 14;20(2):1541.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021541.

Intimate Partner Violence Screening Instruments: A Protocol for a COSMIN-Based Systematic Review

Yanjia Li  1 , Keyi Zhou  1 , Siyuan Tang  1   2 , Jiarui Chen  1   2
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Intimate Partner Violence Screening Instruments: A Protocol for a COSMIN-Based Systematic Review

Yanjia Li et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem resulting in a significant impediment to equal participation, quality of life, and personal, social, and economic development. At present, a variety of screening instruments for IPV have emerged in developed countries, and some of them have been adapted to the language and culture of different countries, such as Hurt, Insult, Threaten, Scream (HITS) and the Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS). The selection of the most appropriate IPV screening instrument for the target population and context from among those instruments has become difficult for researchers when intending to start screening. Therefore, a systemic review of IPV screening instruments is needed. This protocol describes a COSMIN-based systematic review of the measurement properties of these instruments. The aims of the systematic review are to (1) evaluate the methodological quality of studies on the measurement properties including the validity, reliability, and internal consistency of these IPV screening instruments, and (2) provide suggestions for relevant researchers in their local context for using the IPV screening instruments.

Keywords: COSMIN; intimate partner violence; screening instruments.

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Ten steps for conducting a systematic review of PROMs.
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