Publications by authors named "Alison Warburton"

The review has been merged with another Cochrane review and the new review has been published as O'Doherty L, Hegarty K, Ramsay J, Davidson LL, Feder G, Taft A. Screening women for intimate partner violence in healthcare settings. 2015, Issue 7.

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Background: Domestic violence exists in all communities across the world. Healthcare services have a pivotal role in the identification, assessment and response to domestic violence. As the face is a common target in assault, dentists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons are in a unique position to screen for domestic violence in the context of presentation of dental and facial injury.

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Background: Intimate partner abuse is common in all societies and damages the health of survivors and their children in the short and long term. Advocacy may decrease the impact of this abuse on women's health.

Objectives: To assess the effects of advocacy interventions conducted within or outside of health care settings on women who have experienced intimate partner abuse.

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Objective: To compare the cognitive, social cognitive, behavioural, emotional and attachment security outcomes of children whose mothers were admitted to a psychiatric mother and baby unit (MBU) with those of offspring of mothers not admitted and with standardized norms.

Method: Children aged 4-6 years of mothers admitted (following childbirth) to the dedicated psychiatric MBUs in Manchester, and still living with their mother, were traced for recruitment. Observational and multi-informant measures of developmental functioning were administered during a home visit.

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