Factors Related to Police Reporting in Sexual Assault Care Centers: Are We Underestimating the Role of Support Persons?
| Autor: | Baert S; International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., De Buyser S; Biostatistics Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Van Belle S; Health Systems and Health Policy Research Group, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium., Gemmel P; Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Rousseau C; Centre de Prise en Charge des Violences Sexuelles Bruxelles, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium., Roelens K; Department of Human Structure and Repair, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Keygnaert I; International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Violence against women [Violence Against Women] 2024 Dec; Vol. 30 (15-16), pp. 3943-3969. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 26. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10778012231183659 |
| Abstrakt: | Few victims of sexual assault (SA) report to the police. Research on the role of support persons in victims' reporting is sparse. We address this gap by examining the association of victim, assailant, victimization incident, and support characteristics with reporting rates among victims attending sexual assault care centers (SACCs). Logistic regression results show that type of SA, delay between SA and presentation at SACC, and presence of an informal support person at SACC and SACC site are significantly associated with police reporting. These findings reveal the importance of targeting victims' support persons to alter reporting behavior among SA victims. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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