Validity of the ACTS intimate partner violence screen in antenatal care: a cross sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Participant preferences regarding IPV screening

	IPV Positive (CAS)		IPV Negative (CAS)		TOTAL
	n	%	n	%	n	%
IPV screen response format preference	n = 100		n = 802		n = 902
Binary yes/no format^a	53	53	491	61	544	60.3
When should provider ask about IPV	n = 104		n = 873		n = 977
At first visit only	12	12	129	15	141	14
At some visits	37	36	301	34	338	35
At every visit	48	46	417	48	465	48
Don’t think they should ask	7	7	26	3	33	3
Level of comfort talking about IPV^b	n = 54		n = 238		n = 292
Very comfortable	7	13	78	33	85	29
Comfortable	19	35	80	34	99	34
Neutral	11	20	36	15	47	16
Uncomfortable	10	19	35	15	45	15
Very uncomfortable	7	13	9	4	16	5

^a Preferred binary yes/no response format rather than ordinal frequency response. ^b Only includes participants who responded to this item by selecting a comfort-level response option; An additional 722 participants instead selected the option, “I have not experienced this issue”

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