Validity of the ACTS intimate partner violence screen in antenatal care: a cross sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Abusive behaviours experienced by participants in past 12 months

	IPV Positive
	N	%	95% CI
ACTS Screening Tool – Binary Yes/No format^a (n = 1042)
Has partner or ex-partner…
Done something that made you feel afraid?	55	5.3
Controlled your day-to-day activities or put you down?	44	4.2
Threatened to hurt you in any way?	17	1.6
Hit, slapped, kicked, or otherwise physically hurt you?	13	1.2
Any of the above^b	83	8.0	6.3, 9.6
ACTS Screening Tool – Ordinal Frequency format^c (n = 1042)
Has partner or ex-partner…
Done something that made you feel afraid?	94	9.0
Controlled your day-to-day activities or put you down?	81	7.8
Threatened to hurt you in any way?	26	2.5
Hit, slapped, kicked, or otherwise physically hurt you?	31	3.0
Any of the above^d	133	12.8	10.7, 14.8
Composite Abuse Scale (n = 1029)
Scored positive for the following category of abuse…
Severe Combined Abuse	28	2.7
Emotional Abuse /Harassment alone	57	5.5
Physical Abuse alone	5	0.5
Physical and Emotional Abuse/Harassment	18	1.7
Any category of abuse on CAS	108	10.5	8.6, 12.4

Denominators vary due to missing data. ACTS Afraid/Controlled/Threatened/Slapped or otherwise physically hurt, CI confidence intervals
^a‘Yes’ in response to question, “In the last year, has a partner or ex-partner…”, where response options for each item were Yes (scored 1) or No (scored 0)
^bScore of 1 (Yes) on one or more of the ACTS Screening Tool items
^c ‘Rarely’ or above in response to question, “In the last year, how often has a partner or ex-partner…”, where response options for each item were on a five-point Likert scale (Never = 0, Rarely = 1, Sometimes = 2, Frequently = 3, Very frequently = 4)
^dScore ≥ 1 (Rarely) on one or more of the ACTS Screening Tool items

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