Panel recommends: All women should be screened for partner abuse

Submitted by oregon dad on Wed, 2012-06-13 13:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'All women of childbearing age could benefit from being routinely screened for intimate partner violence, a government-appointed panel of experts said today.

Whether or not women have any signs or symptoms of abuse, they would be screened under the proposed recommendation released today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

An estimated 1.3 to 5.3 million women yearly experience violence at the hands of their partners, though these numbers are likely underestimates, because such violence often goes unreported, according to research cited by the panel.

If a screening test revealed a woman to be the victim of intimate partner violence, she should be referred for an intervention, according to the draft.

The new recommendation would be a change from the panel's previous statement on the topic. In 2004, the panel said it found insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routinely screening women for intimate partner violence. In recommending any routine screening, the panel considers evidence of the potential benefits and harms.'

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UNBELIEVABLE!!

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So why didn't they recommend that? You know the answer already.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-06-13 16:51

I doubt that the intention of these "screenings" is to prevent "partner abuse," which we all know can include such non-abuse activities as slamming doors. The true intent seems to be to give the Fed government an excuse to inform all women of their current and outrageously-unfair legal rights to go after men.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Wed, 2012-06-13 20:39

After looking around the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force website, I found the following link. If you are as outraged as I am that this sort of screening seems to be non-egalitarian, this would be the way to address it. Specifically, I would recommend the following actions:

* Anyone with actual research and clinical experience in the field to write in professionally on the subject to make sure that any recommendations are based on actual, empirical evidence - not ideology.

* Everyone who has ever experienced violence at the hands of their female significant others to write in about these experiences.

* Everyone who has ever been falsely accused of violence to write in and make sure this consideration is heard.

* Finally, be polite and be truthful. The science speaks for itself, and remember your audience on this one: clinicians and the like.

Here is the link for the recommendation:

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/draftrec2.htm

And here is the link for how to comment:

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/tfcomment.htm

Finally, going forward, we need to make sure representatives from our interest group are nominated. We should make sure to choose folks with actual research experience. I'm going to recommend Murray Straus. Others?

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tfnominfo.htm

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Submitted by lance on Thu, 2012-06-14 16:11

You know what this really amounts to? if i read that right they will "enforce" wether the woman wants them to or not and with the changes to the vawa every man who is with a woman and has raised his voice in an arguement or told her she cant have new shoes is now an abuser "3-4 questions" they are saying but answer any one of these the wrong way and im sure there will be many more that follow..

what about screening for men? since men are by far more likely to not report DV?

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Submitted by Rog on Thu, 2012-06-14 17:58