This is a social media health promotion campaign about women’s brain injuries. It is designed to build community and service provider knowledge about the link between experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence and brain injury. The evidence-informed approaches taken in each social media tile are drawn from Brain injury: A practitioner guide.
While brain injuries are strongly linked to domestic, family and sexual violence, community and service provider knowledge about them can be minimal. Symptomology can overlap with other conditions that are also associated with experiencing violence, or be put down to ageing or hormonal changes through menopause. When brain injuries are missed, women’s outcomes for healing and recovery can be impacted. The goal of this campaign is to build knowledge that experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence, including strangulation, can be mechanisms of injury for brain injuries.
The campaign material covers:
- Advice for service providers when clients have experienced strangulation or a hit to the head
- Prompts for healthcare professionals when patients have been strangled or had a blow to the head
- The connection between domestic, family and sexual violence and brain injury
- Delayed symptomology after a brain injury
- Encouraging help-seeking behaviour after brain injury
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This campaign will be useful to service providers and healthcare providers working in digital environments with women who have experienced domestic, family and sexual violence.
