A scoping review of healthcare professionals' views on intimate partner violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Objectives
This scoping review aims to survey healthcare providers (HCPs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) about their knowledge, attitudes, and barriers to working with women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). This review aims to map the breadth of available peer-reviewed literature that may inform future educational training programs.
Design
Scoping review.
Data Sources
The scoping review included studies up to December 2023 from PUBMED, Medline, COCHRANE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Arabic medical journals. 
Eligibility Criteria
Selected articles were restricted to those carried out in the MENA region, available in full-text, and with no date restrictions. Data Extraction and Synthesis Data was extracted from all studies to include research location, year of publication, type of journal, methodology, design, participants, knowledge, attitudes, and barriers. By charting the information into a table, the data was analysed using frequency and counts and descriptiv..., , , # A Scoping Review of healthcare professionals' views on Intimate Partner Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

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## Description of the data and file structure

The data file presented *(Data of Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs on Intimate Partner Violence.xlsx)* describes all the articles included in the scoping review.

Firstly, this data file provides you with details of each study we included in our scoping review:

1. Authors: includes names of all the authors that contributed to writing the study
2. Study name: name of the study.
3. Location: country where their data was collected.
4. Year of publication: the year the study was published.
5. Journal: name of the journal that published said study
6. Study design: the type of study (i.e. cross-sectional, qualitative, and etc.)
7. Type and number of participants: a description of the participants' occupation al...