Development of Verbal HITS for intimate partner violence screening in family medicine.

Background And Objectives: Researchers in intimate partner violence (IPV) screening have developed a short written tool called HITS. The acronym corresponds to questions that elicit information about how often a woman's male partner physically Hurts, Insults, Threatens harm, and Screams at her. The purpose of this study was to develop a verbal form of the HITS and to compare it to the published written version.