“You can’t swim well if there is a weight dragging you down”: cross-sectional study of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse prevalence against Australian nurses, midwives and carers

Table 1 Survey measures

Variables	Source measure	Number of survey items
Demographics	Australian Bureau of Statistics Personal Safety Survey (ABS PSS) [13]	12
Physical & emotional health	SF-12 [33]	12
Depression	PHQ-4 [34]	2
Anxiety	PHQ-4 [34]	2
Posttraumatic stress disorder	Short Screening Scale for DSM-IV Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [35]	7
Hazardous alcohol consumption	FAST [36]	4
12-month & adult lifetime IPV	CAS [37]	36
12-month & adult lifetime IPV perpetration	Bespoke	5
Physical & sexual child abuse	ABS PSS [13]	4
Witnessing FV	WAV Project [9]	1
Non-partner sexual assault	ABS PSS [13]	5
Digital abuse	TAR Scale [38]	2
Reproductive coercion	Bespoke	2
Workplace impacts of IPV	DV and the Canadian Workplace Survey [2]	11
Health & specialist service use	Bespoke	20
Resiliency	CD-RISC2 [39]	2
Advocacy & support	Bespoke (open-ended questions)	5

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