Predicting Abused Women With Children Who Return to a Shelter: Development and Use of a Rapid Assessment Triage Tool. Academic Article

abstract

• To develop a tool to predict risk for return to a shelter, 150 women with children, exiting a domestic violence shelter, were evaluated every 4 months for 24 months to determine risk factors for returning to a shelter. The study identified four risk factors, including danger for murder, woman's age (i.e., older women), tangible support (i.e., access to money, transportation), and child witness to verbal abuse of the mother. An easy to use, quick triage tool with a weighted score was derived, which can identify with 90% accuracy abused women with children most likely to return to shelters.

authors

• Montalvo-Liendo, Nora

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• McFarlane, J., Pennings, J., Liu, F., Gilroy, H., Nava, A., Maddoux, J. A., Montalvo-Liendo, N., & Paulson, R

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• McFarlane, Judith||Pennings, Jacquelyn||Liu, Fuqin||Gilroy, Heidi||Nava, Angeles||Maddoux, John A||Montalvo-Liendo, Nora||Paulson, René

publication date

• February 2016

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Violence Against Women  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Age Factors
• Battered Women
• Child
• Child Abuse
• Exposure To Violence
• Female
• Financial Support
• Homicide
• Housing
• Humans
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Mothers
• Return To Shelter
• Risk
• Social Work
• Spouse Abuse
• Transportation
• Triage
• Triage Tool
• Young Adult

PubMed Central ID

• 26270386

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1077801215599843

start page

• 189

end page

• 205

volume

• 22

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F1077801215599843

user-defined tag

• 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• 5 Gender Equality