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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Personal barriers to addressing intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis of healthcare practitioners’ experiences

Study Number

Authors

Year (Country)

Objective Summary

HCP Setting

Sample Size

Data Collection / Analysis Method

Years of clinical experience

1

Aziz & El-Gazzar [28]

2019

(Egypt)

To explore the attitude of HCPs about screening for and dealing with IPA in the health care setting and to assess the physicians’ screening behaviour.

Hospital

N = 22

Focus groups / Thematic analysis

Average: <  5 years

2

Baig et al. [29]

2012

(Colombia)

To examine provider

barriers and facilitators to screening for IPA

Hospital

N = 27

Interviews / Un-named analysis method describing content analysis

Not provided

3

Colarossi et al. [30]

2010

(USA)

To expand current knowledge by comparing licensed family planning service providers (advanced practice clinicians and social workers) and unlicensed ones (health care assistants) who work in a setting guided by institutional policy and procedure for IPA screening.

Family Planning Centre

N = 64

Focus Groups / Grounded Theory

Range: <  5 years - over 10 years

4

Conn et al. [31]

2014

(Canada)

To explore orthopedic surgery residents’ knowledge of IPA and their preparedness to screen patients for IPA in a fracture clinic setting with a view to developing targeted IPA education and training.

Hospital

N = 64

Focus Groups / Unspecified inductive analysis

Range: 1–5 years

5

Columbini et al. [32]

2013 (Malaysia)

To analyse barriers and opportunities to implement and integrate effective health service responses to IPA at different levels of the health system.

Hospital

N = 54

Interviews / Framework Analysis

Not provided

6

Djikanovic et al. [33]

2010

(Serbia)

To identify HCPs’ perceptions and attitudes regarding IPV in Serbia (Belgrade), as well as how they perceive barriers for providing appropriate help for women who have experienced IPA.

Healthcare Clinic

N = 71

Focus Groups / Qualitative content analysis

Not provided

7

Efe & Taskin [34]

2012

(Turkey)

To delineate the factors that prevent the adequate provision of nursing services to women subjected to IPA.

Hospital

N = 30

Interviews / Descriptive analysis

Not provided

8

Finnbogadottir & Dykes [35]

2012 (Sweden)

To explore midwives’ awareness of and clinical experience regarding IPA among pregnant women in southern Sweden.

Hospital

N = 16

Focus Groups / Content text analysis

Range: 4–36 years

9

Gallagher [36]

2014

(UK)

To explore how educational psychologists conceptualised IPA

and the role they could have in working with schools and children and families.

Urban local services

N = 5

Interviews / Thematic analysis

Range: 4–15 years

10

Guruge [37]

2012

(Sri Lanka)

To explore how Sri Lankan nurses perceive their role in caring for women experiencing IPA.

Hospital

N = 30

Interviews / Thematic analysis

Range: 1–15 years

11

Husso et al. [38]

2012 (Finland)

To explore how HCPs make sense of IPA interventions and the organisational practices of these interventions.

Health Clinic

N = 30

Focus Groups / Framework analysis

Not provided

12

Mauri et al. [39]

2015

(Italy)

To explore midwives’ knowledge and clinical experience of IPA among pregnant women, with particular emphasis on their perceptions of their professional role.

Hospital & local health

N = 15

Interviews / Content analysis

Range: 8 months to 35 years

13

McCauley et al. [40]

2017 (Pakistan)

To investigate the knowledge and perceptions of IPA among doctors who provide routine antenatal and postnatal care at healthcare facilities in Pakistan.

Hospital

N = 25

Interviews/ Thematic framework analysis

Range: 2–10 years

14

Papadakaki et al. [41]

2014

(Greece)

To explore the perceptions and practices of general practitioners (GPs) regarding the identification and management of IPA in primary care settings.

Primary Care

N = 18

Focus Groups / Thematic analysis

Mean 12 years

15

Pau [42]

2015 (Malaysia)

To examine factors that influence Malaysian health care providers’ attitudes, knowledge, and responses to IPA survivors, including their perceptions of IPA, factors that influenced the ways they work with IPV survivors, factors they perceived influenced IPA survivors’ help-seeking behaviors, and their recommendations for improving IPA training.

Hospital, NGOs and department of social welfare

N = 17

Interviews / Constant comparative analysis

Range 1–30 years (md = 5 years)

16

Pitter [43]

2016 (Jamaica)

To improve the capacity of midwives to identify and treat pregnant women experiencing IPA in Jamaica.

Hospital

N = 6

Focus Groups / content analysis

Range: <  1–11 years

17

Rahmqvist et al. [44]

2019

(Sweden)

To describe emergency nurses’ experiences when caring for victims of violence and their family members in emergency departments.

Hospital

N = 12

Interviews / Qualitative content analysis

Median 4.5 years

18

Robinson [45]

2010

(USA)

To identify how registered nurses screen for intimate partner violence in the emergency department.

Hospital

N = 13

Interviews / Colaizzi’s seven step analysis

Not provided

19

Rose et al. [46]

2011

(UK)

To explore the facilitators and barriers to disclosure of IPA from a service user and professional perspective.

Mental Health Services

N = 20

Interviews / Unspecified thematic analysis

Range: 4–29 years

20

Sormanti & Smith [47]

2010

(USA)

To explore health physicians’ reactions and ideas about IPA screening in the emergency department setting.

Hospital

N = 25

Focus Groups / Content analysis

Not provided

21

Spangaro et al. [20]

2011

(Australia)

To understand challenges, and enablers of screening apply this to a model of how health policies become routinized in practice.

Health Services

N = 59

Focus Groups / Unspecified inductive analysis

Not provided

22

Sun et al. [48]

2019

(Hong Kong)

To investigate the barriers of Hong Kong primary care physicians toward managing IPA, including barriers of recognition, management, and referrals of these patients.

Hospital

N = 26

Focus Groups / Content analysis

Not provided

23

Sundborg et al. [49]

2017 (Sweden)

To improve understanding of district nurses’ experiences of encountering women exposed to IPA.

Primary Care

N = 11

Interviews / content analysis

Not provided

24

Usta et al. [50]

2014 (Lebanon)

To explore physicians’ attitudes about responding to IPA, their perception of the physician’s role, and the factors that influence their response.

Primary Care

N = 67

Interviews / Thematic analysis

Mean 19 years

25

Van der Wath [51]

2019

(South Africa)

To uncover discourses that may help understand emergency nurses’ responses towards women exposed to IPA.

Hospital

N = 15

Focus Groups / Unspecified thematic analysis

Not provided

26

Visentin et al. [52]

2015

(Brazil)

To identify the actions conducted by primary health care nurses for women in situations of IPA.

Health Units

N = 17

Interviews / Content analysis

Range: <  1–21 years

27

Watson et al. [53]

2017

(UK)

To address the gap in the literature concerning the key conditions therapists experience when working with women over the age of 45 presenting with IPA.

Mental Health

N = 17

Interviews / Grounded theory approach

Range 1–20 years

28

Zakar et al. [54]

2011 (Pakistan)

To investigate the response of primary health care physicians in diagnosing and treating the victims of IPA in Pakistan.

Hospital

N = 24

Interviews / Unspecified thematic analysis

Range 3–26 years

29

Zijlstra et al. [55]

2017 (Netherlands)

To examine factors facilitating and constraining the identification and management of IPA at an emergency department.

Hospital

N = 18

Interviews / content analysis

Range: <  1–15 years