Intervening in domestic violence: interprofessional collaboration among social and health care professionals and the police

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Table 1. Focus group interview themes

Encountering domestic violence (DV) in interviewees’ professions	definitions and conceptions of DV frequency and relevance of DV-related tasks emotions related to these tasks practices, instructions and guidelines
Training on DV in education programme and during career	previous training (education programme and/or during career) contents and duration of training forms of training (voluntary/mandatory)
Training needs relating to DV	relevant topics for future training format and content needed and wanted in future training
DV and interprofessional cooperation	defining the most frequent collaborators challenges in cooperation good practices in cooperation factors facilitating or hindering effective cooperation
Three wishes to a good fairy: this would be the best way of intervening in DV in our work	key aspects that would help to optimally resolve issues relating to DV

Table 2. Focus group interview data and thematic analysis

Main themes	Sub-themes	Data examples of challenges in collaboration	Levels constructed by in-depth thematic analysis
Multiagency collaboration	People: Professionals working together	“If you think about the municipalities around here, yes, [there is distrust].”	Level of communication
Structural factors	Work: Institutional, professional and collaborative practices	“And such genuine, flexible, effective collaboration doesn’t exist. Or it rarely does.”	Level of practice and Level of structure
Cultural climate and attitudes	Cultures: Assumptions, habits and conceptions	“A worker from a mental health office called and said that (s)he was calling now, that (s)he didn’t know what a shelter was, what it meant.”	Level of awareness