Table 1.

Key baseline characteristics of the study clinics

	Clinic 1	Clinic 2
Location and number of women who visited the clinic in past month	Located in Area C (under the Israeli authority) 792 women Serves 16 000 people	Located in Area B (Palestine civil control and joint Palestinian-Israeli security control) 594 women Serves 11 000 people
Number of DV cases recorded	4 DV cases (physical and economic abuse)	0 DV cases
Staff composition	Clinical staff: 11 (5 doctors—1 coming to antenatal clinic twice a week; 6 nurses)	Clinical staff: 7 (4 female nurses; 3 doctors)
Leading GBV staff	No specific DV co-ordinator on site. Primarily, nurses in vaccination and pregnancy clinics should be able to deal with DV cases	1 female nurse at gynaecology clinic
DV services offered on site	Basic medical treatment Basic counselling Referral to MoH central office for mental or psychological services	Basic medical treatment Referral to mental or psychological services (to the MoH central office)
DV training	Only 1 training for nurses trained by MoH GBV focal point	Only nurses were trained on referral system (1 day training at the MoH and 2 days training with local NGO)
DV identification	DV screening conducted at the gynecology clinic and cases also identified at paediatric clinics (vaccination) and general medicine	Done by nurses in antenatal care (first visit); at family planning clinics (once a year)
DV documentation and registration	DV data collection form available DV registry available at clinic	DV registry available at clinic, registration done by nurses
Referral	GBV focal point at central office of MoH in Hebron	Only to MoH central Office in Bethlehem (for mental health services) Referral to the MoH occurs through the MoH GBV focal point
DV protocols	DV written protocols from the MoH National Referral System Manual (and forms) Co-operation agreement with the mental health clinic in the central MoH clinic	DV written protocol and forms of the referral system Co-operation agreement with the mental health clinic in the central MoH clinic
Privacy and confidentiality	No private room for DV screening and counselling	Limited as no private room for DV screening
DV information material	DV brochures are available in the corridors	No DV posters on walls and no leaflets available in waiting rooms Leaflet only given to women during DV screening if the woman asks
Infrastructure & supplies	No private room for consultations No hepatitis B vaccine, forensic examination items or sanitary towels	No private room for consultations No HIV tests, hepatitis B vaccine, forensic examination items or sanitary towels