Spouse Abuse
Conditions
Keywords
Intimate partner violence, Descriptive factors, Incapacité Totale de travail
Brief summary
Intimate partner violence is a real public health problem, and affects all socio-cultural backgrounds It is defined by behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological or sexual harm or suffering to the people in that relationship. Several risk factors exist such as young age, low level of education, exposing to violence during childhood, pregnancy or addictions.
Detailed description
Routine screening is recommended with redaction of medical certificate in which doctor have to determine l'Incapacité Totale de Travail corresponding to the duration of discomfort (physical and psychological repercussions) in the activities of daily life. It is a legal notion allows to rule on the responsibility of the author. The sentence is increased if the ITT is greater than 8 days. Worldwide, 30% of women suffered violence whose most common form is intimate partner violence, but legal proceedings have been initiated in less than 25% of the cases. The trauma of women victims of domestic violence worsens with the repetitions of assaults. The investigators suppose that the duration of ITT is an indicator of the severity of the injuries sustained. So, the investigators want to highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and describe the spouse abuse, and then related theese factors to Incapacité Totale de Travail (term used in law. It is a scale for assessing the importance of injuries).
Interventions
OTHERSurvey
It is a survey that the patient and doctor must complete.
Sponsors
Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Adult patients * Admission to emergency for intimate partner violence * Or consultation to SOS doctor for intimate partner violence * Or consultation to medico-judicial unit for intimate partner violence * No verbal opposition to inclusion
Exclusion criteria
* Non intimate partner violence * Patient under guardianship or curatorship * Non French speaker * Coma or inability to express non-opposition * Prior participation in another center
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to Incapacité Totale de Travail | Month 24 | Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to Incapacité Totale de travail |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to Incapacité Totale de travail for more than eight days. | Month 24 | Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to an Incapacité Totale de travail for more than eight days. |
| Spontaneus request of a medical certificate during the consultation. | Month 24 | Determine the proportion of women asking for a medical certificate during the consultation. |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed