Emergency Room Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence Cases in Taiwan

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Taiwanese society faces increasing domestic violence that is a global health, social, and human rights problem across cultural and geographical boundaries.Emergency room (ER) nurses are standing at the frontline identifying and intervening with domestic violence cases.In Taiwan, there is a paucity of published literature on ER nurses' experiences with and responses to domestic violence cases.Therefore this study employed vignettes in a factorial survey design along with labeling theory to examine which status characteristics of domestic violence cases and ER nurses predict Taiwanese ER nurses' responses to domestic violence cases.Data were collected from 252 Taiwanese ER triage nurses in 12 of 19 medical-center-level hospitals through a survey questionnaire that had three parts: the most recent domestic violence case, domestic violence case vignettes, and ER nurse status characteristics questions.Each respondent responded to four random and unique vignettes on the three dependent varia

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