IPV Screening and Readiness to Respond to IPV in Ob-Gyn Settings: A Patient-Physician Study

Table 3

PREMIS scales used in analyses ().

Scale	Description		Items	Mean SD	Range	Alpha
Perceived preparation	Ob-gyns rated how prepared they felt to assess for/respond to IPV on a scale from not prepared (1) to quite well prepared (7).	124	12	4.10 1.38	1.00 to 7.00	0.946
Perceived knowledge	Ob-gyns rated how much they felt they knew about IPV and IPV response on a scale from nothing (1) to very much (7).	123	16	4.14 1.41	1.00 to 7.00	0.968
Objective knowledge	Ob-gyns answered multiple choice, select all that apply, matching, and true/false/DK IPV knowledge questions.	124	38	26.51 5.24	10.00 to 34.00	—
Questioning in specific situations	Ob-gyns rated how often in the past 6 months they asked patients with associated symptoms about IPV from never (1) to always (5). N/A responses excluded.	115	7	2.90 0.99	1.00 to 5.00	0.921
IPV response practices	Ob-gyns who had identified IPV in the past 6 months indicated how often they performed response practices from never (1) to always (5). N/A responses excluded.	79	11	3.51 0.97	1.00 to 5.00	0.909

A total score of correct items was obtained to represent criterion-referenced, objective knowledge; accordingly, “measurement of internal consistency … was not appropriate” [14, 15]. For the remaining scales, mean scores were calculated to account for missing items.