Screening for Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Healthcare Sweden: Prevalence and Determinants

Table 1

Demographic and occupational characteristics of participants.

	N	%
Gender
Male	36	21
Female	132	79
Immigration status
Immigrant*	24	14
Swedish born	144	86
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	116	69
Single	35	21
Divorced/widower/widow	17	10
Staff cadre**
Doctor	25	16
Nurse	62	40
Nursing assistant	34	22
Midwife	26	17
Other	7	5
Department**
Emergency	106	65
Women’s clinic	45	28
Ambulatory	12	7
Age
(mean (st.dev in brackets))	41 years (10.0 years)
Years in service
(mean (st.dev in brackets))	17 years (11.2 years)

N: number within category, %: proportion within category. *Born of another nationality than Swedish. **Not all participants responded to these inquiries. Thus total falls short of 𝑛=168.