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The Potential For Screening For Interpersonal Violence In Community Pharmacies: An Exploratory Study, Marie Barnard
The Potential For Screening For Interpersonal Violence In Community Pharmacies: An Exploratory Study, Marie Barnard
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem of epidemic proportion; the only known effective health care intervention is routine screening for IPV exposure. Despite professional guidelines for routine screening, this intervention has been poorly adopted. Expansion of screening efforts to the community pharmacy setting provides an opportunity to have a substantial impact on the health, well-being of pharmacy patients. This investigation is the first to examine IPV screening related to the pharmacy environment. An existing measure of physicians' readiness to manage IPV (PREMIS) was adapted for the community pharmacy environment and validated in a national random sample of …