Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 483-491 , October 2003

Do responses to an intimate partner violence screen predict scores on a comprehensive measure of intimate partner violence in low-income black women?

  • Sheryl L Heron, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Sheryl L. Heron, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30303
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  • Martie P Thompson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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  • Emily Jackson, BS

      Affiliations

    • Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA, USA
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  • Nadine J Kaslow, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA, USA

Received 25 March 2003 ,Revised 17 June 2003 ,Accepted 30 June 2003.

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☆ Author contributions: SLH, NJK, and MPT contributed to writing of the manuscript. NJK, MPT, and EJ participated in the study's conception and design. NJK obtained research funding. NJK and EJ supervised the study. MPT managed and analyzed the data. SLH, NJK, and MPT edited multiple drafts of the manuscript and take responsibility for the paper as a whole.Presented as a poster at the Southeast Society for Academic Emergency Medicine conference, Jacksonville, FL, April 2002.Supported by the Association of Schools of Public Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry grant “Why does interpersonal violence lead to suicidality in women?”Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00718-2

doi: 10.1067/S0196-0644(03)00718-2

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 483-491 , October 2003

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