NCT00166075

Mental Health Symptoms and Intimate Partner Violence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 569 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Using a touch screen computer, the researchers are screening emergency department patients for intimate partner violence and mental health issues.

Detailed description

Using a touch screen computer, the researchers are screening emergency department patients for intimate partner violence and mental health issues. The researchers are looking to see if those who participate in a computer screen and are given referral lists as well as having the computer printout placed on the physician clipboard, will increase physician awareness and recognition as well as patient use of resources compared to usual care.

Conditions

• Domestic Violence
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Computer screen with community resource printout	Patients participated in the screening process via a computer kiosk. Questions regarding IPV and mental health symptoms were asked using validated tools

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-01-01
• Primary completion: 2006-12-01
• Completion: 2007-12-01
• First posted: 2005-09-14
• Last updated: 2013-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States