Psychiatry · Primary Care

Woman Abuse Screening Tool calculator

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Clinical inputs

Tension in the relationship

Only a lot of tension scores 1. No tension and some tension score 0.

Difficulty working out arguments

Only great difficulty scores 1. No difficulty and some difficulty score 0.

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Source: Brown JB, Lent B, Schmidt G, Sas G. Application of the Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) and WAST-Short in the family practice setting. J Fam Pract. PMID: 11052161. The scored screen is the first two items. A lot of tension scores 1 and any lesser tension scores 0. Great difficulty working out arguments scores 1 and any lesser difficulty scores 0. The printed criterion cutoff is 1, so a sum of 1 or 2 is a positive screen and a sum of 0 is not. The same paper recodes and sums the longer item list but does not print a positive cutoff for that sum. The eight-item total is therefore not scored here. (2000)

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Clinical inputs

Tension in the relationship
Difficulty working out arguments

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Brown JB, Lent B, Schmidt G, Sas G. Application of the Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) and WAST-Short in the family practice setting. J Fam Pract. PMID: 11052161. The scored screen is the first two items. A lot of tension scores 1 and any lesser tension scores 0. Great difficulty working out arguments scores 1 and any lesser difficulty scores 0. The printed criterion cutoff is 1, so a sum of 1 or 2 is a positive screen and a sum of 0 is not. The same paper recodes and sums the longer item list but does not print a positive cutoff for that sum. The eight-item total is therefore not scored here. (2000)

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