Predicting Abused Women With Children Who Return to a Shelter: Development and Use of a Rapid Assessment Triage Tool.
To develop a tool to predict risk for return to a shelter, 150 women with children, exiting a domestic violence shelter, were evaluated every 4 months for 24 months to determine risk factors for returning to a shelter. The study identified four risk factors, including danger for murder, woman's age (i.e., older women), tangible support (i.e., access to money, transportation), and child witness to verbal abuse of the mother. An easy to use, quick triage tool with a weighted score was derived, which can identify with 90% accuracy abused women with children most likely to return to shelters.
Texas Woman's University, Houston, USA.
Judith
J
McFarlane
Elite Research, Carrollton, TX, USA.
Jacquelyn
J
Pennings
Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA fliu@twu.edu.
Fuqin
F
Liu
Texas Woman's University, Houston, USA.
Heidi
H
Gilroy
Texas Woman's University, Houston, USA.
Angeles
A
Nava
Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA.
John A
JA
Maddoux
Texas A&M College of Nursing, McAllen, USA.
Nora
N
Montalvo-Liendo
Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA.
René
R
Paulson
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D018585:Battered Women; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D000069581:Exposure to Violence; D005260:Female; D005378:Financial Support; D006708:Homicide; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers; D012306:Risk; D012947:Social Work / Q000379:methods*; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D014186:Transportation; D014218:Triage; D055815:Young Adult
intimate partner violence; return to shelter; triage tool