Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Inclusion: | Exclusion: | |
| Participants | System agents involved in responding to violence within families or whānau. The ‘agent’ will be a collective such as a professional practice discipline (nurses or doctors), organisation or service (health or social). The agent(s) will be characterised during the data extraction process. | Literature that does not discuss the interaction between at least two system agents that provide services. Since we are interested in the ‘what is’, not what ‘ought to be’, this needs to be evidence-based and not speculative. |
| Concept | Interaction between system agents responding to families and whānau impacted by violence. The concept will be explored from the perspective of the healthcare system, that is, how is the healthcare system interacting with, or not interacting with, other system agents in an integrated approach? | None |
| Context | System responses to families or whānau impacted by the following types of violence as defined in the referenced literature: ‘intimate partner violence’,1 ‘child abuse and neglect’,1 ‘elder abuse’,32 ‘domestic violence’,15 ‘family and sexual violence’,33 ‘violence within whānau’,1 ‘intrafamilial violence’.1 | Literature related to violence occurring outside of familial relationships |
| Types of evidence | Reviews (eg, systematic or narrative reviews) Protocols for planned studies Peer-reviewed research articles Policy, strategy or guidelines Full-text articles | Studies published before 2010 Not written in English Editorial articles Abstracts or posters Articles where full-text is unavailable |