Assessing the feasibility of a web-based domestic violence intervention using chronic disease frameworks: Reducing the burden of 'treatment' and promoting capacity for action in women abused by a partner

Abstract

Background: Domestic violence shares many features with chronic disease, including ongoing physical and mental health problems and eroded self-efficacy. Given the challenges around help-seeking for women experiencing domestic violence, it is essential that they be given support to 'self-manage' their condition. The growing popularity of web-based applications for chronic disease self-management suggests that there may be opportunities to use them as an intervention strategy for women experiencing domestic violence, however, as yet, little is known about whether this might work in practice. Discussion: It is critical that interventions for domestic violence-whether web-based or otherwise-prom..