title: Providers' perspectives about helpful information for evaluating domestic violence and sexual assault services: a practice note.
abstract: This practice note presents findings from a statewide survey of domestic violence and sexual assault agency directors (n = 80; 77% response rate), regarding their opinions about the outcome information that should be collected from victims during evaluations of five commonly provided services: legal advocacy, medical advocacy, group services, individual counseling, and shelter. The findings showed that four information types were repeatedly ranked among the most important to collect to understand whether services helped victims including victims' satisfaction with services, victims' progress toward meeting their goals, changes in the extent of violence and/or trauma that victims experienced, and changes in victims' knowledge.
authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA rjmacy@email.unc.edu.
authors: Rebecca J
authors: RJ
authors: Macy
authors: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
authors: Ijeoma Nwabuzor
authors: IN
authors: Ogbonnaya
authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
authors: Sandra L
authors: SL
authors: Martin
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D030881:Disclosure / Q000592:standards*; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology
keywords: domestic violence; evaluation; partner violence; rape; sexual assault