Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Health-care providers should ask about exposure to intimate partner violence when assessing conditions that may be caused or complicated by intimate partner violence, in order to improve diagnosis/identification and subsequent care
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience
Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services, 2019
WHO Guidelines for the health sector response to child maltreatment
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach
WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee, second edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025