Preventing Domestic Violence: A Review of Peer-Reviewed Articles

Running head- RESEARCH LITERACY
Domestic Violence
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................2
Methods.......................................................................................................................................2
Review........................................................................................................................................2
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................6
Appendix.....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Domestic violence is not only restricted to the lower and middle socioeconomic
households. Also referred to as family violence or domestic abuse, it refers to abuse by an
individual against another, which primarily takes place in a domestic setting. Such domestic
settings commonly encompass cohabitation and marriage (Root & Brown 2014, p.145).
Intimate partner violence is one kind of domestic violence that occurs when violent acts are
committed by partners or spouse in their intimate relationship. Furthermore, domestic
violence also takes place against parents, children and older adults. It occurs in different
forms namely, verbal, physical, economic, religious, emotional, sexual and reproductive
(Howard et al. 2013, p.e.1001452). This report will discuss five peer-reviewed articles that
elaborate on prevention of harm from this kind of violence.
Methods
An organised pattern of search terms were used for retrieving relevant articles from
the electronic databases (Aromataris & Riitano 2014, p. 52). The search strategy was based on
a combination of different key words such as, ‘domestic’, ‘family’, ‘abuse’, ‘violence’,
‘manage’, ‘prevent’, ‘prevention’, ‘assault’, and ‘harm’. These key terms were combined with
the use of Boolean operators such as, AND, OR, and NOT. While AND narrowed down the
retrieved articles, use of OR helped in broadening the search results. NOT was used to extract
search hits that contained specific key terms and excluded others (McGowan et al. 2016,
p.42). Articles published in English, on or after 2013 were selected for the literature
discussion. A total of five articles were selected for the purpose (refer to appendix). The
rationale for selecting these five articles is that they identified the fact that domestic abuse
occurs when the abuser holds the belief that abuse is an acceptable, entitlement, and is
justified, without a likeliness for being reported.
Review
A study conducted a survey with the aim of gaining an understanding of the resources
and prevention services that were aimed at reducing rates of intimate partner violence in Los
Angeles. The study used certain community based programs and conducted the survey among
54 professionals, recruited from different agencies and programs, with the help of snowball
and purposive sampling. Findings from the survey indicate that most of the respondents did
not have any training or little training in the intimate partner violence among the LGBT.
Approximately 50% reported having helped LGBTs “often” or sometimes” in past years.