Predicting women's perceptions of domestic violence and sexual assault agency helpfulness: What matters to program clients?

Violence Against Women

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1149-1178

  Zweig, Janine M ^a   Burt, Martha R ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community collaboration; Domestic violence; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 35448995252     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801207307799     Document Type: Article

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