Identifying and responding to IPV in maternity and early postnatal and primary care: establishing baseline measures to inform systems change

What’s the project about?

Universal services such as general practice, antenatal and postnatal care, and hospital emergency departments provide an under-utilised ‘window of opportunity’ for early identification and intervention to support families at risk of or experiencing intimate partner violence. This study will draw on data from longitudinal cohort studies and completed intervention studies to provide comparative historical and baseline measures documenting health service use by women and children exposed to intimate partner violence.

What can we expect to come out of this project?

Baseline information to provide a benchmark for leveraging and evaluating systems change in universal services during the time frame of the CRE.