Table 2.

Patient Disclosure and Patient and Clinician Comfort Level, by Screening Protocol

Variable	Total	Self-Report	Medical Staff Interview	Physician Interview	P Value
Patients, No.	523	173	169	181
Patient domestic violence disclosure, %
HITS	6.3	6.4	5.9	6.7	.959
WAST-Short	12.5	13.3	11.8	12.2	.914
Overall	14.2	14.5	13.0	15.0	.862
Patient comfort with screening tools, mean, score*
HITS	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.6	.434
WAST-Short	3.6	3.5	3.6	3.6	.519
Overall	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.6	.446
Patient comfort with screening method, mean, score*†‡	3.4	3.4	3.5	3.4	.656
Patient perception of helpfulness for screening, mean, score‡	3.2	3.3	3.1	3.2	.453
Time spent screening, min	4.4	4.8	4.4	4.0	.100
Clinicians, No.	33	N/A	14	19
Clinician comfort with screening methods, mean, score*§
Self-administered	3.4	N/A	3.2	3.6	.181
Medical staff	3.1	N/A	3.1	3.2	.801
Physician	3.4	N/A	3.4	3.4	.788
Clinician comfort with screening tools, mean, score*¶
HITS	3.1	N/A	2.8	3.2	.184
WAST-Short	3.3	N/A	3.0	3.5	.039
Overall	3.1	N/A	2.9	3.3	.100

HITS = hurt, insult, threaten, scream; N/A = not applicable; WAST-Short = 2-items of the Woman Abuse Screening Tool.

* Range: not at all comfortable (1) to very comfortable (4).

† Most patients (93.4%) reported being comfortable with the assigned protocol.

‡ Women who disclosed domestic violence and those who did not were similar in perception of helpfulness for screening and comfort with screening across methods; the only exception was those who disclosed domestic violence were slightly less comfortable with medical staff screening (P=.021).

§ Most clinicians (84.5%) were comfortable with the screening methods.

¶ Subgroup analysis indicated that physicians preferred WAST-Short to HITS (P = .043) and self-administered questionnaire to medical staff interview (P=.007).