Table 2.

Selection of Structured Interview Questions for Primary Care Clinicians and Staff (n = 27 Participant Interviews)

  1. I will ask you to tell me a little bit about yourself and your thoughts and experiences with screening women and adolescent female patients for IPV and anxiety

  2. Can you discuss how your clinic is involved in screening for IPV?*

  3. Do you have standing protocols available to guide IPV screening in your clinic?*

  4. Outside of your standing protocols, what symptoms in a patient or family would prompt you to screen for IPV?*

  5. Can you walk me through how you document a screening for IPV in your EHR?*

  6. Who else is involved in the screening or documentation? (prompts: MA, behavioral health, social worker, PCP)

  7. What happens at the clinic if a patient screens positive? Who / which roles are involved?

  8. Do you have any concerns about universal screening for IPV?*

  9. What are facilitators and barriers to adopting a new screening tool?

  10. What are your clinics protocols for establishing new screening tools?

  11. How do you typically learn about new guidelines and recommendations? What about changes to existing guidelines and recommendations?

  12. Do have any final thoughts or suggestions for improving the screening of women patients for IPV and/or anxiety?

  • *A parallel question format was used for anxiety screening, in place of IPV as above.

  • Abbreviations: EHR, electronic health record; IPV, intimate partner violence; MA, medical assistant; PCP, primary care physician.