4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2011
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 22/11/2011
Page tools: Print Page Print All | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ROUTINE SCREENING (DVRS) PROGRAM, NEW SOUTH WALES
DETAILED METADATA Contact Data custodian: New South Wales Department of Health Contact: Manager, Violence Prevention and Responses Address: Locked Mail Bag 961, North Sydney, NSW, 2059, Australia Telephone: 02 9391 9000 Facsimile: 02 9391 9101 Email: n/a Internet: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2007/dom_viol_snap.html Publications http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2004/routinescreen.html http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2005/routine_screeningfn.html http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2007/dom_viol_snap.html New South Wales Health Routine for Domestic Violence Program Snapshot Report: November 2003 Routine screening for domestic violence program - Snapshot report 2 Routine Screening for Domestic Violence Program - Snapshot report 3, November 2005 Snapshot report 4, November 2006 Purpose To monitor the Domestic Violence Routine Screening (DVRS) program and inform service development. Description This is an annual one month data collection snapshot for the DVRS Program. The New South Wales Health Policy and Procedures for Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence (2003, revised 2006) required the introduction of routine screening of eligible women for domestic violence in the antenatal, early childhood health, mental health, and alcohol and other drugs services program streams by the end of 2004. The screening format has been provided by the New South Wales Department of Health. Other services in addition to the four target program areas may also screen. Collection Type Administrative by-product Family and Domestic Violence related content (data items collected)
2 Derived from type of health service attended
Definition of Family and Domestic Violence DV is defined according to New South Wales Health’s Domestic Violence policy as:
The questions asked in the screening process are: Q1 Within the last year have you been hit, slapped or hurt in other ways by your partner or ex-partner? Q2 Are you frightened of your partner or ex-partner? Aspects of Family and Domestic Violence captured by this database are:
Relationship to Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence (Cat. No. 4529.0)
Collection methodology Annual one month data collection snapshots are undertaken between 1-30 November. Each screening facility completes a data collection proforma, provided by the NSW Department of Health. Proformas are submitted to the Area Health Service for collating into program areas and sign-off. Women can have more than one action taken on their behalf and are counted against each type of action taken (e.g. Police notifications, Department of Community Services reports, and numbers of referrals to any service. Similarly, individual women may be referred to more than one service, and thus counted more than once in the total number of other referrals. Women who answer ‘yes’ to either or both screening questions are then asked:
Scope / target population “Eligible women”, that is, all women attending antenatal and early childhood services, and women aged 16 and over attending mental health, alcohol and other drugs, or other services. Coverage Some “eligible women” may not be screened, or screening may not be completed for reasons including ‘presence of partner’, ‘presence of others’, declined to answer question, or other reasons (eg lack of private space, interruption, domestic violence already identified therefore screening was not necessary etc.). Note that services may count ‘eligible women’ differently, eg new clients only. Geographic coverage and disaggregation NSW Data available for: NSW Other - Area Health Service; Some information available at Screening Facility level. Frequency / Timing One month snapshot each year Annual Collection history Collection commenced: 2003 Breaks in series: no Other details: n/a Data availability / Dissemination Data can be provided free upon request. Data collection snapshot reports are electronically available for 2003 – 2006. Expected date of publications for 2007-2009 is 2011. Other data sources held by this agency n/a Has this data source changed? Contact the ABS to report updates or corrections to the information above.
|