Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Violence Vict. 2021 Dec 1;36(6):793-807. doi: 10.1891/VV-D-20-00221.
In research on sexual assault victims' help-seeking, proxy data sources are often utilized because outreach to survivors immediately postassault may increase a study's risk-to-benefit ratio. Victim advocates and services providers are common proxy respondents, but empirical research comparing the accuracy of their information is needed. We collaborated with seven sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs to collect de-identified, paired data from nurses and advocates regarding the help-seeking experiences of = 744 adult victims. Using pairwise McNemar tests, we found statistically significant agreement on victim demographics, assault characteristics, and victims' decisions regarding medical forensic exams, sexual assault kit (SAK) collection, and release of SAKs for forensic DNA testing. Nurses and advocates had different information regarding victims' disclosure histories and their reasons for seeking SANE care.
在性侵犯受害者寻求帮助的研究中,通常使用代理数据源,因为在性侵犯后立即接触幸存者可能会增加研究的风险效益比。受害者倡导者和服务提供者是常见的代理受访者,但需要进行比较他们信息准确性的实证研究。我们与七个性侵犯护士检查官(SANE)项目合作,从护士和倡导者那里收集了 744 名成年受害者的寻求帮助经验的去识别、配对数据。使用成对 McNemar 检验,我们发现关于受害者人口统计学、攻击特征以及受害者关于医疗法医检查、性侵犯工具包(SAK)收集和法医 DNA 测试的 SAK 释放的决策方面,存在统计学上显著的一致性。护士和倡导者对受害者的披露历史及其寻求 SANE 护理的原因有不同的信息。