Recent publications 

 
 

Lived Experience

Fiolet R, Lamb K, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. A Chance to have a Voice: The Motivations and Experiences of Female Victim-Survivors of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence who Joined a Lived Experience Research Group. Journal of Family Violence. 2024 Aug 1:1-1.

Tarzia L, Lamb K, McKibbin G, Parker R, Hegarty K. Using digital storytelling with women who have experienced intimate partner abuse: a qualitative exploration of participant experiences in Australia. Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 2023 Oct 1;7(3):414–34.

Survivor and Health Practitioner Qualitative Metasynthesis

Tarzia L, Bohren MA, Cameron J, Garcia-Moreno C, O’Doherty L, Fiolet R, et al. Women’s experiences and expectations after disclosure of intimate partner abuse to a healthcare provider: A qualitative meta-synthesis. BMJ Open. 2020 Nov;10(11):e041339.

Hegarty K, McKibbin G, Hameed M, Koziol-McLain J, Feder G, Tarzia L, et al. Health practitioners’ readiness to address domestic violence and abuse: A qualitative meta-synthesis. Munro-Kramer ML, editor. PLOS ONE. 2020 Jun 16;15(6):e0234067.

Hudspeth N, Cameron J, Baloch S, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. Health Practitioners’ perceptions of structural barriers to the identification of intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis. BMC Health Services Research. 2022 Jan 22;22(1).

Korab-Chandler E, Kyei-Onanjiri M, Cameron J, Hegarty K, Tarzia L. Women's experiences and expectations of intimate partner abuse identification in healthcare settings: a qualitative evidence synthesis. BMJ Open. 2022 Jul;12(7):e058582.

Tarzia L, Cameron J, Watson J, Fiolet R, Baloch S, Robertson R, et al. Personal barriers to addressing intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis of healthcare practitioners’ experiences. BMC Health Services Research. 2021 Jun 9;21(1).


Health professionals who have experienced domestic violence

McLindon E, Diemer K, Kuruppu J, Spiteri-Staines A, Hegarty K."You can't swim well if there is a weight dragging you down": cross-sectional study of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse prevalence against Australian nurses, midwives and carers. BMC Public Health. 2022 Sep 12;22(1).

Men Who Use Violence

Hegarty K, Tarzia L, Navarro Medel C, Hameed M, Chondros P,
Gold L. Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a healthy relationship tool for men who use intimate partner violence (BETTER MAN). BMC Public Health. 2023 Dec 2;23 (1).

Tarzia L, McKenzie M, Addison MJ, Hameed MA, Hegarty K. “Help Me Realize What I’m Becoming”: Men’s Views on Digital Interventions as a Way to Promote Early Help-Seeking for Use of Violence in Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2023 Feb 10;088626052311538.

Children

Kuruppu J, Humphreys C, McKibbin G, Hegarty K. Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings. Children and Youth Services Review. 2023 Jul 1;150:107029–9.

Kuruppu J, Humphreys C, McKibbin G, Hegarty K. Tensions in the therapeutic relationship: emotional labour in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare. BMC Primary Care. 2022 Mar 17;23(1).

 

Health care settings

Lamb K, McKay H, Baloch S, Hegarty K. Developing a Research Agenda with Victim-Survivors to Improve Health Sector Responses to Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence in Australia. Journal of Family Violence. 2024 Jul 27:1-8.

Hegarty K, Spangaro J, Kyei-Onanjiri M, Valpied J, Walsh J, Chapman J, et al.Validity of the ACTS intimate partner violence screen in antenatal care: a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2021 Sep 24;21(1).

Kuruppu J, Novy K, Fetter L, Oo S, Hegarty K. “Family court…sucks out your soul”: Australian general practitioners’ experiences supporting domestic violence survivors through family court. BMC Primary Care. 2023 Apr 11;24(1).

Hegarty KL, Andrews S, Tarzia L.Transforming health settings to address gender-based violence in Australia. 2022 Jul 7;217(3).

Marsden S, Humphreys C, Hegarty K. Why Does He Do It? What Explanations Resonate During Counseling for Women in Understanding Their Partner’s Abuse?. 2021 Jan 23;088626052198985.

Marsden S, Humphreys C, Hegarty K. Women survivors’ accounts of seeing psychologists: harm or benefit? Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 2020.


Reproductive coercion

Wellington M, Hegarty K, Tarzia L. Women’s Lived Experiences of Reproductive Coercion and Abuse. Journal of Family Violence. 2023 Oct 6.

Sheeran N, Tarzia L, Douglas H. Communicating Reproductive Coercion in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence: Perspectives of Service Providers Supporting Migrant and Refugee Women. Journal of Family Violence. 2022 Jan 12.

Wellington M, Hegarty K, Tarzia L. Barriers to responding to reproductive coercion and abuse among women presenting to Australian primary care. BMC Health Services Research. 2021 May 4;21(1).

Sexual Violence

Tarzia L, Brown C, McLindon E, Hegarty K. Development and Validation of the Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Scale (IPSVS): A Multi-Dimensional Scale to Measure Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2024 Oct 15:08862605241287803.

Tran G, Forbes-Mewett H, Tran LT, Hach M, Tarzia L. Help-seeking after intimate partner or sexual violence: exploring the experiences of international student women in Australia. Violence against women. 2024 Apr 22:10778012241247198.

Jiménez Aceves J, Tarzia L. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of male perpetrators of sexual violence against women: a scoping review and thematic synthesis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 2024:15248380241241014.

Tarzia L, Henderson-Brooks K, Baloch S, Hegarty K. Women Higher Education Students’ Experiences of Sexual Violence: A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 2023 Apr 10;152483802311629.

Tarzia L. “It Went to the Very Heart of Who I Was as a Woman”: The Invisible Impacts of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence“. Qualitative Health Research. 2020 Oct 29;104973232096765.

Tarzia L. Toward an Ecological Understanding of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2020 Jan 20;36(23-24):088626051990029.

Vicarious trauma

Neil J, Barton C, Hegarty K. Should we be concerned? A qualitative study of educators’ perceptions of medical student wellbeing in domestic violence training. Medical Teacher. 2023 Aug 14;1–7.

Technology Facilitated abuse

Fiolet R, Brown C, McKay D, Marsden S, Leins K, Harris B. Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2023 Aug 2.