BACKGROUND Only a minority of trauma victims (<10%) develops post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suggesting that victims vary in predispositions to the PTSD response to traumas. It is assumed that the influence of predispositions is inversely related to trauma severity: when trauma is extreme predispositions are assumed to play a secondary role. This assumption has not been tested. We estima...

OBJECTIVE To determine if there is any association between childhood sexual assault and maladaptive coping behaviour in adult life. DESIGN A case-control study. SETTING AND PATIENTS Data from 707 psychiatric patients consecutively examined by one psychiatrist in a rural practice were analysed. Forty-four female patients who were victims of childhood sexual assault were identified and were a...

During 1994 U.S. residents age 12 or older experienced 11.6 million violent victimizations  murders, rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, aggravated assaults, and simple assaults. Men experienced more of these crimes than women: 6.6 million versus 5 million. Strangers to the victims committed most of the violence against males (3.9 million), while persons whom the victims knew committed most of ...

This study aims to determine college students’ levels of knowledge about sexual harassment and assault, identify the predictors this level knowledge. Participants have been selected using a multi-stage sampling method consist 7,302 students from state in Turkey. The age participants ranged 17 years 29 with mean 21.33 (SD = 2.04). Sexual Harassment Assault Knowledge Test, Survey College Students...

INTRODUCTION Violence against women in Canada is an important public health problem. Published research that reports prevalence of violence against women by province or region is limited, and estimates of the rates of violence experienced by rural women are sparse. METHODS This study reports the results of a secondary analysis of data to examine the prevalence of physical and sexual assault r...

BACKGROUND Sexual assault affects one out of every five women, and it is a substantial public health and human rights problem in developing countries including Ethiopia. There has not been a study which documented the extent of the problem in the study area; hence the objective of this study was to assess the pattern of sexual assault and related complications in cases which were treated at Jim...

A cross sectional study was conducted among 291 victims of sexual assault cases examined at the department of Forensic Medicine, Rajshahi Medical College from February to June, 2004 in order to see the profiles of the sexual assault cases. In this study the mean age of the victims was 17.78 years. Out of 291 victims 3 individuals were male. The incidence of sexual assault was more frequent amon...

Abstract Background Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important collect relevant information from victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper medico-legal evidence collection. Main text This article aims orient novice examiner nurses prerequisites history collection, techniques...

The term drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) has been recently coined to describe victims who were given a drug by an assailant and subsequently sexually assaulted. Previous studies that have attempted to determine the prevalence of drugs in sexual assault complainants have had serious biases. This research was designed to better estimate the rate of DFSA and to examine the social aspects su...