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Global Family Violence Initiative


 Bridging Gaps in GPs' Response to Intimate Partner Violence


  • WONCA, The Global Organization of Family Doctors, needs your support to fund an ambitious project aimed at improving GPs' responses to Family Violence.
  • The project aims to create a free global e-learning programme for GPs, providing essential skills needed to detect and respond to Intimate Partner Violence.
  • WHO recognises that intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem, with 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men, experiencing such violence in their lifetime.
  • General Practitioners and Family Doctors are uniquely positioned to facilitate disclosure and provide support to victims of IPV.
  • However, they need proper training and education to overcome barriers and offer adequate care. Research has shown that IPV education in medical training improves physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and likelihood of identifying victims through routine questioning.
  • WONCA’s Global Family Violence Initiative hopes to bridge this gap by drawing on our collective expertise to develop and implement an accessible and engaging e-learning programme for GPs around the world.

This project is a collaborative effort involving:

    •    WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence

    •    WONCA Working Party on Women and Family Medicine

    •    WONCA Young Doctors' Movements.


The project's ultimate goal is to empower GPs with the skills needed to address Intimate Partner Violence, aligning with WHO recommendations and contributing to global efforts to combat violence against women in an effective and cost-effective manner.


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Project Highlights  


  • Goal: Improve General Practitioners' (GPs) responses to Family Violence and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) through an e-learning program.
  • Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened violence against women globally, necessitating better training for healthcare professionals, especially GPs, to address this issue.
  • Content: The program includes interactive online training tailored for GPs, covering topics such as understanding violence against women, communication skills, identifying IPV, and providing support, as well as clinical care for survivors of sexual assault.
  • Training Components: It employs a combination of asynchronous and synchronous components, including webinars and a discussion forum for peer interaction.
  • Assessment: The training assesses participants' knowledge and attitudes using the PREMIS questionnaire.


VIDEO: Frontline workers talk about their experiences working with victims of family violence and underscore the need for a project like WONCA's Global Family Violence Initiative.



Description 


This project aims to improve General Practitioners' competencies and consequently their response to Family Violence (FV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) through an E-Learning Program. The WHO at its 69th World Assembly (2016) recognized the key role of health systems especially Primary Health Care in addressing violence against women. Health professionals, especially those in primary care settings such as family doctors can play a crucial role in identifying and treating Family Violence and Intimate Partner Violence, the most common form of Gender Based Violence, but they often lack the necessary training, skills and experience, and resources to provide the appropriate response. 

There is an urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and care for victims and survivors, but the essential and prior condition is the training of professionals. This project aims to contribute to closing this gap by offering an e-learning program for family doctors. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified violence against women globally, creating a need for better training for healthcare professionals, especially GPs, to address this issue.


The program will be hosted on the WONCA platform and includes interactive online training tailored for GPs. It covers topics such as understanding violence against women, communication skills, identifying IPV, and providing support, and clinical care for survivors of sexual assault. The program employs a combination of asynchronous and synchronous components, including webinars and a discussion forum for peer interaction. The training assesses participants' knowledge and attitudes using the PREMIS questionnaire. Ultimately, the project seeks to empower GPs with the skills needed to effectively address IPV, aligning with WHO recommendations and contributing to global efforts to combat violence against women in a convenient and cost-effective manner.

Overall Goal 


The purpose of this project is to address the issue of violence against women, specifically intimate partner violence (IPV), which has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming a shadow pandemic itself. The project aims to provide general practitioners (GPs) with effective training to improve their competences and consequently responses to IPV, including prevention, early detection, and care for victims, survivors, and their families.

Relevance of the project


The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown measures led to an increase in domestic violence worldwide. Violence against women, including IPV, is a significant global public health problem with severe consequences for individuals and society. Despite its prevalence, a high percentage of cases remain hidden, as victims often do not disclose the violence they experience. Healthcare professionals, especially those in primary care settings like GPs, can play a crucial role in identifying and addressing IPV, but they often lack the necessary training, skills, and resources to do so appropriately. The project acknowledges that healthcare professionals, including GPs, are in a unique position to facilitate disclosure and provide support to victims of IPV. However, they need proper training and education to overcome barriers and offer adequate care. There are experiences, started during the COVID-19 pandemic, that using this methodology have had promising results. Accessibility, the possibility of a personalized organization of the training itself, the use of forums and chats for queries and doubts and the availability of a repository of material (documents, videos, presentations, etc.) for students, are great advantages in bringing training closer to professionals in any context, but above all in difficult moments or circumstances. Research has shown that IPV education in medical training improves physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and likelihood of identifying victims.

Problems it addresses


The project's goal is to enhance GPs' competencies and consequently, their response to family and gender violence, focusing on IPV. It aims to create an e-learning program on the WONCA platform for GPs, covering topics like understanding violence, communication skills, identifying IPV, and providing support. This digital intervention through e-learning offers a feasible and effective approach to enhance GP responses to IPV. Training will be available on the WONCA platform, with a mix of asynchronous and synchronous components for personalized learning and peer interaction, with video modules on Moodle and webinars for interaction.


To assess its effectiveness, participants will complete the PREMIS survey before and after the training. Recruitment will be done through WONCA, targeting GPs globally, including those from Low or Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and young doctors. 


This initiative makes training accessible, convenient, and cost-effective. It aims to create a more responsive healthcare system, empowering GPs with the skills and knowledge to address IPV effectively, making training more accessible and contributing to providing better care and support to IPV survivors. Ultimately, the project seeks to positively impact survivors' lives and break the cycle of violence in the long term.


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