Screening for abuse in Spanish-speaking women.

Colleen T. Fogarty · Judith Belle Brown

69 citations0/0 files storedPubMed

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Intimate Partner and Family Violence Child Abuse and Trauma Elder Abuse and Neglect

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Domestic violence is a major personal and public health concern affecting women of all walks of life. Physicians have reported the need for screening instruments to help recognize abuse; several have been validated in English. No screening tools thus far have been validated in other languages. METHODS: We translated a previously validated tool, the Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST), into Spanish. To assess for validity, we compared responses of Spanish-speaking abused and nonabused respondents drawn from a community health center and a battered women's shelter. There were 27 women in the abused group and 34 women in the nonabused comparison group. RESULTS: The scale was found to be reliable with a Cronbach alpha of 0.91. The mean WAST Spanish scores were significantly different between the two groups, indicating this tool would be a valid screening instrument. A short form using the two most reliable questions was developed as a more rapid screening tool for office use, achieving a specificity of 94% and a sensitivity of 89%. CONCLUSIONS: The Spanish version of the WAST successfully discriminated between Spanish-speaking nonabused and abused women. The short form might help physicians reliably screen for abuse in Spanish-speaking women.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 69 citations exist upstream.

References

1998HITS: a short domestic violence screening tool for use in a family practice setting.1997Accuracy of 3 brief screening questions for detecting partner violence in the emergency department 1995Measuring battering: development of the Women's Experience with Battering (WEB) Scale.1996Breaking the silence. Battered women's perspectives on medical care 1992Somatic consequences of violence against women 1996Development of the Woman Abuse Screening Tool for use in family practice.1998Inside “Pandora’s box”1997Accuracy of 3 brief screening questions for detecting partner violence in the emergency department.

Cited by

2008Apoyo social como factor protector frente a la violencia contra la mujer en la pareja 2003Domestic violence: screening made practical.2008Validación de la versión corta del Woman Abuse Screening Tool para su uso en atención primaria en España 2005Injury Location and Screening Questionnaires as Markers for Intimate Partner Violence 2018A randomized controlled trial of a computer-based brief intervention for victimized perinatal women seeking mental health treatment

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.