AIMS To assess whether key questions can detect domestic violence (DV), and find out the prevalence in primary care (PC) and women's care (WC). DESIGN Intervention Study with random assignment. LOCATION PC and WC clinics (Sant Boi de Llobregat Barcelona). PARTICIPANTS Systematic random selection of women in PC (not know if battered) and women who came for the first time to the WC service....

a r t i c l e i n f o The link between domestic violence and children has been well documented, but little is known about racial variations in this relationship. Using multiple waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study examined whether the effects of domestic violence on children's behavior problems differed by race. Results from structural equation modeling revealed t...

Purpose. To assess the efficacy and safety of corneal transplantation using corneas from foreign donors. Methods. One hundred and eight patients needing therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty were randomly divided into 2 groups (54 cases/group): foreign group using foreign donor corneas and domestic group using domestic donor corneas. Clinical outcome and incidence of postoperative complications ...

This study sought to compare the perception of domestic violence of women, victims of this kind of violence, with the perception of pregnant women, victims or not of domestic violence, as well as to search for elements allowing for the planning and execution of a cohort study on domestic violence among pregnant women. A qualitative exploratory research was conducted using the technique of conve...

Although EU institutions and policies create additional opportunities for national interest groups to influence policy-making, not all domestic interest groups make use of the extended niche that is provided by the EU. Lagging Europeanization has often been explained by resource-based accounts, i.e. the wealth of interest groups determines their ability to Europeanize. This article explores an ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the barriers to identification and management of domestic violence from the battered women's perspective. DESIGN Qualitative research methods using semistructured focus groups. SETTING Urban and suburban community-based organizations serving women and their families in the San Francisco Bay (Calif) area. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-one women with histories of domestic violen...

Crossbreeding with free-ranging domestic cats is supposed to threaten the genetic integrity of wildcat populations in Europe, although the diagnostic markers to identify "pure" or "admixed" wildcats have never been clearly defined. Here we use mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequences and allelic variation at 12 microsatellite loci to genotype 128 wild and domestic cats sampled in Italy which were precl...