Recognising and documenting health consequences of interpersonal violence - developing and testing an educational product for employees in health care SMEs
Funded by the European Social Fund and co-financed by the Hessian Ministry of Labour, Family and Health.
Project management:Prof. Dr. Beate Blättner, Prof. Dr. Annette Grewe
Research assistants: M.Sc. Kerstin Krüger (Public Health), M.Sc. Ulrike Fuchs (Public Health)
Duration: 22.02.2010 - 31.12.2012
In addition to treating the health consequences of interpersonal violence, the tasks of health care include recognising and addressing violence, documenting it in a way that can be used in court, clarifying safety issues and referring the victims to the help system. Experience to date shows that the health care system is currently only sporadically fulfilling the tasks that go beyond treatment. Despite some training offers, uncertainties of action are one of the reasons for this.
The core objective of the measure was to develop a training product with which employees in SMEs in the health care sector can acquire the competences that support them in recognising and addressing victims of violence, documenting the health effects in a way that can be used in court and providing protection through close cooperation with other support systems. The acquisition of these competences serves the social challenge of counteracting the chronification of interpersonal violence and its health, social and economic consequences.
The complexity of the task consisted in particular in offering offers for the expansion of competences for different actors with different learning prerequisites in different care settings on two different qualification levels. In addition, credit transfer to academic and vocational education should be possible.
The development of the modularised continuing education concept was based on the TUNING method, which is designed to develop internationally comparable study programmes in the European Higher Education Area.
- Development of the professional competence profile in the stakeholder process.
- Definition of learning outcomes
- Development of teaching units (modules), with qualification objective, prerequisites, contents, methods and learning location
- Development of learning materials
- Testing of the educational product
- Evaluation and, if necessary, revision of the tested educational product.
The competence profile was described using the 'Dublin Descriptors', which also form the basis of the 'European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning' (EQF). A second design feature was the action sequence of care in interpersonal violence developed by RADAR (1996).
The project experiences show that training concepts on the topic of violence in health care must be designed as "training on the job" and ideally be integrated into an organisational development process of the institution. Realise "training on the job" in the form of an internet portal. Therefore, the homepage www.befund-gewalt.de was designed. Parts of the homepage should only be accessible to health care workers; for this purpose, protection via the DocCheck portal, which is frequently used in health care, was used.
However, it is difficult to evaluate the use of the learning platform.
