Sexual healthcare and contraception provision after sexual assault

Effectiveness of emergency contraception in women after sexual assault

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of emergency single-dose levonorgestrel contraception in preventing unintended pregnancies among woman who visited the emergency department (ED) due to sexual assault (SA). METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review in a university hospital in South Korea. Cases from November 10, 2006 to November 9, 2009 were enrolled. Information from the initial ...

barriers to healthcare provision for victims of sexual assault: a grounded theory study

conclusions the findings indicate the lack of mutual understanding between health care providers and victims of sexual violence in relation to the expectations and priorities of victims. patients and methods this was a qualitative study based on the grounded theory method. the sample consisted of 23 health care providers and 10 victims of sexual violence. unstructured interviews and observation...

Alcohol and sexual assault.

Conservative estimates of sexual assault prevalence suggest that 25 percent of American women have experienced sexual assault, including rape. Approximately one-half of those cases involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim, or both. Alcohol contributes to sexual assault through multiple pathways, often exacerbating existing risk factors. Beliefs about alcohol's effects on sexual an...

Contraception and Sexual Life

towards the doctor-patient relationship with less formality and more spontaneity. Thoughtful actions and understandings replaced routine procedures.' And the author remarks that, 'by applying a psychotherapeutic approach to the gynaecological transactions in a contraceptive clinic, more fruitful results were obtained than by purely gynaecological skills or purely psychological and emotional cou...

Drug-facilitated sexual assault.