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Background: Health care providers have important role in identification and management of domestic violence against women. The purpose of this study was to explore views and ideas of the women health worker about the screening and management programs related to domestic violence against women, their benefits and barriers and introducing the appropriate interventions for removing the barriers.      

Materials and methods: This qualitative study was held through six focus group discussions and three in-depth interviews by the participation of fifty-six women who had provided reproductive health care of South Tehran, Rey and Eslamshahr Health Networks. The health care providers' views about domestic violence screening and management were extracted, categorized and analyzed.  

Results: The majority of health care providers were aware of the importance of identifying and management of domestic violence cases in health care facilities. Respondents felt that they have responsibility to screen for domestic violence. Major barriers to domestic violence screening and management included perceived lack of time and place, insufficient knowledge and skills related to domestic violence screening and management, insufficient personnel and referral services.

Conclusion: : Improvement of identifying and management of domestic violence in health care settings by removing the barriers to screening and improvement of referral and supportive services, can lead to decreasing in domestic violence against women cases.

Background: Physical and verbal violence against hospital personnel is very critical problems that could influence the quality of clinical and nursing cares. Today, problem prevention and identification of related factors with domestic violence against women have been considered as a health priority in many countries. Therefore, due to the importance of this issue, this study aimed to determine related factors with domestic violence against women in educational hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.
 
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was a descriptive-analytical one which conducted on 836 female employees using census method. Data collection performed using a researcher-made questionnaire. This questionnaire consisted of 34 items in four dimensions (physical, verbal and mental, sexual) and violence experienced by the husband. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16 with descriptive statistics and analytic statistics such as Kolmogorov–Smirnov, ANOVA, independent t test, and Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression.
 
Results: Study results revealed that verbal and mental (55.33%), physical (36.16%), and sexual (6.66%) violence were the most common type of violence against women, respectively. There was a significant statistically association between age gap, forced marriage, husband’s addiction, income and precedent violence Experience and violence against women.
 
Conclusion: This study presented prevalence and related factors of demotic violence among women. Therefore, it is imperative that health authorities, especially hospital managers, pay attention to this phenomenon assessing further investigation of factors related to violence against women in order to take the necessary steps to mitigate and reduce related factors using life skills workshop, training and counseling for couples.