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Evaluation of Effectiveness of Health Services Training Given with Different Methods in Combating of Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Pilot Study

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The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of health services training provided with different methods in combating of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. The intervention group of the study consisted of 132 healthcare workers (HCW) and 249 HCWs in the control group. According to the result of study, training given to the intervention group was more effective in increasing the knowledge level, compared to the control group. Furthermore, comparison of the HCWs in the intervention group with the control group revealed that the attitudes towards emotional, psychological and sexual violence and justifying myths changed positively. In this scope, it can be said that intervention training was effective in terms of improving knowledge and attitude on IPV. However, it is determined that the training given to both groups was inefficient in terms of turning into behaviour.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to the officials of the Turkish Ministry of Health and Prime Ministry Directorate General of Women’s Status and Problems, who have provided all kinds of support in all phases of the study. Furthermore, we would like to thank all HCWs who participated in the study.

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  1. Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Yildirim Beyazit University, Cankırı Street, No:3 Ulus, Ankara, Turkey

    Sena Kaplan

  2. Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Aydin University, Inonu street, Istanbul, Turkey

    Nuran Komurcu

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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Kaplan, S., Komurcu, N. Evaluation of Effectiveness of Health Services Training Given with Different Methods in Combating of Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Pilot Study. J Fam Viol 32, 69–77 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-016-9834-y

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