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TOPIC: Knowledge, Screening and Reporting Practices of Health Professionals towards Gender Based Violence among Women in Kabwe District, Zambia

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/easjnm.2020.v02i05.003
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Gender based violence is a major public health concern. The main aim of this study was to examine Knowledge, Screening and Reporting practices of Health Professionals towards gender based violence among women in Kabwe District, Zambia. This was a descriptive cross section study conducted in health facilities in Kabwe district. About 207 doctors, Nurse Midwives and Clinical Officers were selected to participate in the study using stratified sampling method. Data was collected using a questionnaire and was entered into SPSS version 22. Chisquare test was used to determine associations between the variables. The statistical significance was set at 5% and confidence interval was set at 95%. The findings showed that a high percentage, 81.2% of the Health professionals had not been trained or sensitized on GBV, 79.7% of them had high level of knowledge on GBV. Slightly more than half, 54% of the Health professionals screened women for GBV, mostly upon suspicion for GBV (72.3%), which is also known as selective screening. Few of the HPs screened women for GBV often, 17.5% and very often (8.9%). The majority, 38.2% of the respondents indicated that they did not have a written institutional policy / protocol on how to screen for GBV while 30.4% did not know whether their institutions had one. Few of the HPs were very confident (22.7%) or extremely confident, 5.3% that they could screen women for GBV. Overall, the HPs‟ screening practices for GBV were inadequate (83.6%). A statistically significant relationship was observed between respondents‟ profession and their screening practices for GBV (p – 0.020). About one third, 31.4% of the HPs report GBV...............

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