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Knowledge and attitudes of medical students and students of scial work about vooplence against women in partnership

The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes towards partnership violence against women of those students at the end of their studies and to find out the differences between them, if any. Methods: The surway was conducted on last-year students at Zagreb University (medical students - total number 130, and students of social work – total number 75). The students were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire with 10 statements about the term „abused women“, 3 questions on prevalence of domestic violence against women and 11 statements on attitude towards violence adapted to a 1-5 Likert scale. Results: There is no significant differences between medical and social work students in knowledge and attitudes towards abused women (p=0.654). However, social work students were more accurate in defining the partnership violence. They were also more aware about the prevalence of this public health problem and majority of them assumed that physician come in touch with abused women every day (60%). Medical students presumed that those visits take place only few times a year. About 40% of all students felt helpless in contact with abused women because they didn't know how to help her and even 50% knew to get angry if women undertakes nothing against further abuse. Social work students had shown more confidence in solving the problem.

domestic violence; medical students; attitudes

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckr119