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WAST Screen for Intimate Partner Violence
Aka: WAST Screen for Intimate Partner Violence, WAST-SF Screen for Intimate Partner Violence, Women Abuse Screening Tool
- See Also
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Indications
- Intimate Partner Violence Screening
- Background
- Developed and validated for use in family medicine clinics
- Criteria: Part 1 (WAST-SF - questions 1-2)
- Questions (represents the complete WAST-SF as well as the first 2 of 8 questions of the WAST)
- In general, how would you describe your relationship?
- No tension
- Some tension
- A lot of tension
- Do you and your partner work out arguments with...
- No difficulty
- Some difficulty
- Great difficulty?
- Interpretation
- Positive WAST-SF (short form) screen if answers "a lot of tension" and "great difficulty"
- Positive WAST-SF should be followed by completion of part 2 below for the entire WAST
- Criteria: Part 2 (WAST - questions 3-8)
- Scoring: Assign one of the following to each question (Likert Scale)
- Never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Questions
- Do arguments ever result in you feeling down or bad about yourself?
- Do arguments ever result in hitting, kicking or pushing?
- Do you ever feel frightened about what your partner says or does?
- Does your partner ever abuse you physically?
- Does your partner ever abuse you emotionally?
- Does your partner ever abuse you sexually?
- Interpretation
- Interpretation is based on clinical judgement (no fixed positive scoring is assigned)
- Efficacy
- WAST-SF Tool
- Test Sensitivity: 92%
- Test Specificity: 56-68%
- WAST Tool
- Test Sensitivity: 47%
- Test Specificity: 96%
- References
- Brown (1996) Fam Med 28(6):422-8 [PubMed]