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Table 3 Summary of themes & subthemes

From: Health practitioners’ perceptions of structural barriers to the identification of intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Theme

Studies contributing

The environment works against us

- Limited time with patients

- Lack of privacy

43 papers [21,22,23,24, 26,27,28,29,30,31,32, 34,35,36,37,38,39,40, 42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50, 52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62]

Trying to tackle the problem on my own

- Lack of management support

- Health system failure to provide adequate training, polices and response protocols and resources

36 papers [20, 21, 23, 25,26,27,28, 30,31,32,33,34,35,36, 38,39,40,41, 43,44,45,46,47,48,49, 51,52,53,54, 56, 57, 59,60,61,62,63]

Societal beliefs enable us to blame the victim

- Normalisation of IPA

- Belief that IPA only present in certain types of women

- Women will lie or are not reliable

20 papers [22, 24,25,26, 29, 30, 37, 38, 40,41,42, 44, 47, 53, 54, 57,58,59,60, 62]