Severe Women Injury Factors Test (SWIFT)

Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Spouse Abuse

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04829474

CHRO-2021-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Women consulting for spouse abuse

Description:

The study focuses on women consulting a doctor as part of spouse abuse, whatever the context (at the request of the police or not) or their motivation (medical or social).

Treatment:

Other: Survey