ASSESSMENT OF THE RISK OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND THE SARA

The intimate partner violence is one of the most serious type of interpersonal violence, it shows a high prevalence and several questions on their genesis and development. At the present time it is a social concern with their control that demands an important investment in socio-sanitary measures to combat their effects in the victims and it also requires criminal multiple resources for their elimination. Being a universal phenomenon, clearly associated to the social gender roles, its has transformed into one of the main threats of the women's health, suffering as well as their families. After a brief discussion about the delimitation of this phenomenon in an epidemiological view there's show up a guide for assessment of the risk of violence against the partner, the SARA, designed to help different professionals in the taking of decisions about the future of violence against the partner. The SARA (Spouse Abuse Risk Assessment) was initially designed to identify the risk of physical and sexual violence against the partner in the family and domestic violence in 1995. It has adapted to Spanish (Andres Pueyo and Lopez, 2005) and it has been carried out a first empirical study for to validate to the profesional use in Spain. Likewise their predictive capacity has been contrasted in situations of serious and reiterated violence against the partner, the SARA shows a good and comparable predictive capacity as other countries in which SARA have a more long tradition of professional use.