Clinical trial NCT04829474: Severe Women Injury Factors Test (SWIFT)
Official title: Descriptive Factors of Intimate Partner Violence on Women Related to "Incapacité Totale de Travail" : Multicenter Prospective Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Conditions: Spouse Abuse
Keywords: Intimate partner violence
Descriptive factors
"Incapacité Totale de travail"
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-04-02
Enrollment: 60
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult women consulting a doctor for intimate partner violence

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).

Eligibility criteria: 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

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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de Travail"
timeFrame: Month 24
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Descriptive factors of intimate partner violence on women related to "Incapacité Totale de travail" for more than eight days.
timeFrame: Month 24
measure: Spontaneus request of a medical certificate during the consultation.
timeFrame: Month 24
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Orléans
country: France
facility: Regional Hospital center of Orleans
city: Orléans
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans (UMJ)
city: Tours
country: France
facility: CHRU de Tours (SAU)
city: Tours
country: France
facility: CHRU de Tours (UMJ)
city: Tours
country: France
facility: SOS Médecins Tours
Study officials:
affiliation: CHR d'Orléans
name: Julien PASSERIEUX, Dr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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