Severe Women Injury Factors Test (SWIFT)

Spouse Abuse Clinical Trial

— SWIFT  

Official title:

Descriptive Factors of Intimate Partner Violence on Women Related to "Incapacité Totale de Travail" : Multicenter Prospective Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04829474
• Other study ID #: CHRO-2021-02
• Status: Terminated
• Start date: March 8, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 23, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2022
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: July 23, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 23, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Spouse Abuse

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
It is a survey that the patient and doctor must complete.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans (UMJ)	Orléans
France	Regional Hospital center of Orleans	Orléans
France	CHRU de Tours (SAU)	Tours
France	CHRU de Tours (UMJ)	Tours
France	SOS Médecins Tours	Tours

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (5)

Choi AW, Lo BC, Wong JY, Lo RT, Chau PC, Wong JK, Lau CL, Kam CW. Clinical Features of Heterosexual Intimate Partner Violence Victims With Escalating Injury Severity. J Interpers Violence. 2021 Sep;36(17-18):8585-8605. doi: 10.1177/0886260519850539. Epub 2019 May 29. — View Citation

Leppäkoski T, Paavilainen E, Astedt-Kurki P. Experiences of emergency care by the women exposed to acute physical intimate partner violence from the Finnish perspective. Int Emerg Nurs. 2011 Jan;19(1):27-36. doi: 10.1016/j.ienj.2010.02.006. Epub 2010 May 20. — View Citation

López-Ossorio JJ, González Álvarez JL, Buquerín Pascual S, García LF, Buela-Casal G. Risk factors related to intimate partner violence police recidivism in Spain. Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2017 May-Aug;17(2):107-119. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2016.12.001. Epub 2017 Jan 31. — View Citation

Lyons VH, Kernic MA, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Holt VL, Carone M. Use of multiple failure models in injury epidemiology: a case study of arrest and intimate partner violence recidivism in Seattle, WA. Inj Epidemiol. 2019 Aug 12;6:36. doi: 10.1186/s40621-019-0215-x. eCollection 2019. — View Citation

Saberi E, Eather N, Pascoe S, McFadzean ML, Doran F, Hutchinson M. Ready, willing and able? A survey of clinicians' perceptions about domestic violence screening in a regional hospital emergency department. Australas Emerg Nurs J. 2017 May;20(2):82-86. doi: 10.1016/j.aenj.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Mar 6. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de Travail"	Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to " Incapacité Totale de travail "	Month 24
Secondary	Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de travail" for more than eight days.	Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to an " Incapacité Totale de travail " for more than eight days.	Month 24
Secondary	Spontaneus request of a medical certificate during the consultation.	Determine the proportion of women asking for a medical certificate during the consultation.	Month 24