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Emergency Room Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence Cases in Taiwan

Lai, Fu-Chih

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2007, PHD, Kent State University, College of Nursing.
Taiwanese society faces increasing domestic violence that is a global health, social, and human rights problem across cultural and geographical boundaries. Emergency room (ER) nurses are standing at the frontline identifying and intervening with domestic violence cases. In Taiwan, there is a paucity of published literature on ER nurses’ experiences with and responses to domestic violence cases. Therefore this study employed vignettes in a factorial survey design along with labeling theory to examine which status characteristics of domestic violence cases and ER nurses predict Taiwanese ER nurses’ responses to domestic violence cases.Data were collected from 252 Taiwanese ER triage nurses in 12 of 19 medical-center-level hospitals through a survey questionnaire that had three parts: the most recent domestic violence case, domestic violence case vignettes, and ER nurse status characteristics questions. Each respondent responded to four random and unique vignettes on the three dependent variables of “ask further questions about domestic violence”, “identify”, and “report” a domestic violence case. This resulted in 1008 vignettes used as the units of analysis. Status characteristics of domestic violence cases: age, escort, somatic symptom, and physical injury and status characteristics of ER nurses: marital status, domestic violence education, and personal domestic violence experience had significant effects on predicting ER nurses’ responses to domestic violence cases. Additional findings revealed that 95.6% of the nurse respondents had professional experiences and 20% had personal experiences with domestic violence. Nearly 65% of respondents had received domestic violence education and 42.9% of that education was from continuing education.This study is important to nursing practice as it provides insight for ER clinical managers and educators about the patient and nurse characteristics that are important to nurses’ decisions about domestic violence. Moreover, study results can serve as evidence for policy regulation about domestic violence education and intervention.
Ruth Ludwick (Advisor)
266 p.

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  • Lai, F.-C. (2007). Emergency Room Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence Cases in Taiwan [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1196703781

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lai, Fu-Chih. Emergency Room Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence Cases in Taiwan. 2007. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1196703781.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lai, Fu-Chih. "Emergency Room Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence Cases in Taiwan." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1196703781

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)