The Identification and Referral to Improve Safety Programme and the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

Amir Reza Akbari, Benyamin Alam, Ahmed Ageed, Cheuk Yin Tse and Andrew Henry
Additional contact information
Amir Reza Akbari: Medical School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Benyamin Alam: Medical School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Ahmed Ageed: Medical School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Cheuk Yin Tse: Medical School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Andrew Henry: Trauma & Orthopaedics, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford M6 8HD, UK

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: Introduction: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a global epidemic which 30% of women experience world-wide. Domestic violence has serious health consequences, with an estimated cost of 1.7 billion annually to the NHS. However, healthcare professionals remain uncertain on how to manage IPV. In 2007, the Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) was introduced within primary care to address this shortcoming. The aim of this project is to analyse the impact of IRIS, whilst discussing the extension into secondary care. Materials and Methods: A literature review was conducted using PubMed, Cochrane Library and Google scholar. The official IRIS publication list for randomized controlled trial data. Results: General practices with IRIS displayed a threefold increase in the identification of IPV and sevenfold increase in referrals. IRIS is cost-effective and under the NICE threshold of £20,000 per quality-adjusted life year gained. Additionally, a systematic review illustrated that one in six women presenting to the fracture clinic experienced IPV within the last year. Conclusions: The implementation of IRIS into general practice proved to be cost-effective. Orthopaedic fracture clinics are at the forefront of dealing with IPV, and therefore an adapted IRIS programme within this setting has potential in the prevention of IPV.

Keywords: intimate partner violence; identification and referral to improve safety; sexual health; domestic violence and abuse; public health; fracture clinic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5653/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5653/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:11:p:5653-:d:561906

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().