Severe Women Injury Factors Test (SWIFT)

Terminated

• Conditions: Spouse Abuse
• Interventions: Other: Survey

• Registration Number: NCT04829474
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans

Brief Summary

Intimate partner violence is a real public health problem, and affects all socio-cultural backgrounds It is defined by behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological or sexual harm or suffering to the people in that relationship.

Several risk factors exist such as young age, low level of education, exposing to violence during childhood, pregnancy or addictions.

Detailed Description

Routine screening is recommended with redaction of medical certificate in which doctor have to determine l'"Incapacité Totale de Travail" corresponding to the duration of discomfort (physical and psychological repercussions) in the activities of daily life.

It is a legal notion allows to rule on the responsibility of the author. The sentence is increased if the ITT is greater than 8 days.

Worldwide, 30% of women suffered violence whose most common form is intimate partner violence, but legal proceedings have been initiated in less than 25% of the cases.

The trauma of women victims of domestic violence worsens with the repetitions of assaults.

The investigators suppose that the duration of ITT is an indicator of the severity of the injuries sustained.

So, the investigators want to highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and describe the spouse abuse, and then related theese factors to " Incapacité Totale de Travail " (term used in law. It is a scale for assessing the importance of injuries).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-03-08
• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-31
• Study First Posted: 2021-04-02
• Primary Completion: 2021-07-23
• Study Completion: 2021-07-23
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-04
• Last Update Posted: 2022-03-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patients
• Admission to emergency for intimate partner violence
• Or consultation to SOS doctor for intimate partner violence
• Or consultation to medico-judicial unit for intimate partner violence
• No verbal opposition to inclusion

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Exclusion Criteria

• Non intimate partner violence
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Non French speaker
• Coma or inability to express non-opposition
• Prior participation in another center

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Women consulting for spouse abuse	Survey	The study focuses on women consulting a doctor as part of spouse abuse, whatever the context (at the request of the police or not) or their motivation (medical or social).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de Travail"	Month 24	Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to " Incapacité Totale de travail "

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Spontaneus request of a medical certificate during the consultation.	Month 24	Determine the proportion of women asking for a medical certificate during the consultation.
Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de travail" for more than eight days.	Month 24	Highlight the socio-demographic characteristics and the violence suffered by women victims of intimate partner violence, and related this factors to an " Incapacité Totale de travail " for more than eight days.

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Regional Hospital center of Orleans; 🇫🇷 Orléans, France

Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans (UMJ); 🇫🇷 Orléans, France

SOS Médecins Tours; 🇫🇷 Tours, France

CHRU de Tours (SAU); 🇫🇷 Tours, France

CHRU de Tours (UMJ); 🇫🇷 Tours, France