Priorities for research in child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and resilience to violence exposures: results of an international Delphi consensus development process

C Nadine Wathen, Jennifer C D MacGregor, Joanne Hammerton, Jeffrey H Coben, Helen Herrman, Donna E Stewart, Harriet L MacMillan, PreVAiL Research Network, Harriet MacMillan, Donna Stewart, Nadine Wathen, Jeff Coben, Helen Herrman, Tracie Afifi, Farah Ahmad, Paula Barata, Jane Barlow, Michael Boyle, Claire Chamberland, Prabha S Chandra, Mariette Chartier, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Michael De Bellis, Lorie Donelle, Jeffrey Edleson, Patricia Erickson, Gene Feder, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Oddgeir Friborg, Anita Gagnon, Deirdre Gartland, Kathy Georgiades, Kathy Hegadoren, Kelsey Hegarty, Karin Helweg-Larsen, Odin Hjemdal, Susan Jack, Anita Kothari, Helmer B Larsen, Sherry McKee, David Olds, John Oliffe, Jitender Sareen, Louis Schmidt, Brett Thombs, Nico Trocmé, Colleen Varcoe, Charlotte Waddell, Christine Wekerle, Camille Burnett, Sara Crann, Danielle Davidov, Natalia Diaz-Granados, Orion Garland, Abby Goldstein, Andrea Gonzalez, Melissa Kimber, Kat Kolar, Jen MacGregor, Anita Morris, Diane Rasmussen Neal, Nicole Pitre, Pamela Ponic, Leslie Roos, Cody Shepherd, Shannon Sibbald, Rae Spiwak, Masako Tanaka, Peter Dudding, Beth Jackson, Rachel Jenkins, Lil Tonmyr, Janet Saul, Peter Dudding, Taranjeet Birdi, Tiffany Thornton, Susan Chatwood, Bryany Denning, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Marta B Rondon, John Fluke, Paula Kingston, Alessandra Guedes, Simon Davidson, Elena Berger, Lil Tonmyr, Christopher Mikton, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Donald McCreary, Sandra Wright, C Nadine Wathen, Jennifer C D MacGregor, Joanne Hammerton, Jeffrey H Coben, Helen Herrman, Donna E Stewart, Harriet L MacMillan, PreVAiL Research Network, Harriet MacMillan, Donna Stewart, Nadine Wathen, Jeff Coben, Helen Herrman, Tracie Afifi, Farah Ahmad, Paula Barata, Jane Barlow, Michael Boyle, Claire Chamberland, Prabha S Chandra, Mariette Chartier, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Michael De Bellis, Lorie Donelle, Jeffrey Edleson, Patricia Erickson, Gene Feder, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Oddgeir Friborg, Anita Gagnon, Deirdre Gartland, Kathy Georgiades, Kathy Hegadoren, Kelsey Hegarty, Karin Helweg-Larsen, Odin Hjemdal, Susan Jack, Anita Kothari, Helmer B Larsen, Sherry McKee, David Olds, John Oliffe, Jitender Sareen, Louis Schmidt, Brett Thombs, Nico Trocmé, Colleen Varcoe, Charlotte Waddell, Christine Wekerle, Camille Burnett, Sara Crann, Danielle Davidov, Natalia Diaz-Granados, Orion Garland, Abby Goldstein, Andrea Gonzalez, Melissa Kimber, Kat Kolar, Jen MacGregor, Anita Morris, Diane Rasmussen Neal, Nicole Pitre, Pamela Ponic, Leslie Roos, Cody Shepherd, Shannon Sibbald, Rae Spiwak, Masako Tanaka, Peter Dudding, Beth Jackson, Rachel Jenkins, Lil Tonmyr, Janet Saul, Peter Dudding, Taranjeet Birdi, Tiffany Thornton, Susan Chatwood, Bryany Denning, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Marta B Rondon, John Fluke, Paula Kingston, Alessandra Guedes, Simon Davidson, Elena Berger, Lil Tonmyr, Christopher Mikton, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Donald McCreary, Sandra Wright

Abstract

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM) are major global public health problems. The Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan (PreVAiL) Research Network, an international group of over 60 researchers and national and international knowledge-user partners in CM and IPV, sought to identify evidence-based research priorities in IPV and CM, with a focus on resilience, using a modified Delphi consensus development process.

Methods: Review of existing empirical evidence, PreVAiL documents and team discussion identified a starting list of 20 priorities in the following categories: resilience to violence exposure (RES), CM, and IPV, as well as priorities that cross-cut the content areas (CC), and others specific to research methodologies (RM) in violence research. PreVAiL members (N = 47) completed two online survey rounds, and one round of discussions via three teleconference calls to rate, rank and refine research priorities.

Results: Research priorities were: to examine key elements of promising or successful programmes in RES/CM/IPV to build intervention pilot work; CC: to integrate violence questions into national and international surveys, and RM: to investigate methods for collecting and collating datasets to link data and to conduct pooled, meta and sub-group analyses to identify promising interventions for particular groups.

Conclusions: These evidence-based research priorities, developed by an international team of violence, gender and mental health researchers and knowledge-user partners, are of relevance for prevention and resilience-oriented research in the areas of IPV and CM.

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Overview of Delphi Process.

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