mJustice: Preliminary Development of a Mobile App for Medical-Forensic Documentation of Sexual Violence in Low-Resource Environments and Conflict Zones

Mishori, Ranit; Anastario, Michael; Naimer, Karen; Varanasi, S.; Ferdowsian, Hope; Abel, Dori; Chugh, Kevin

doi:10.9745/ghsp-d-16-00233

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“…One promising avenue for intersectoral intervention and service delivery may lie within the technology field. For example, technology is being used to train providers that engage with sexual violence survivors [110,111]. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has developed MediCapt, a mobile phone app that has been developed to link medical, law-enforcement, and legal sectors to facilitate the comprehensive forensic documentation of evidence for survivors of sexual violence.…”

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“…Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has developed MediCapt, a mobile phone app that has been developed to link medical, law-enforcement, and legal sectors to facilitate the comprehensive forensic documentation of evidence for survivors of sexual violence. It helps healthcare providers conduct medical exams through the provision of a medical intake form and mobile camera and to securely transmit this data to counterparts in the police and in the legal sectors [110,111]. It is currently being field-tested.…”

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Male and LGBT survivors of sexual violence in conflict situations: a realist review of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries

Kiss

Quinlan-Davidson

Pasquero³

et al. 2020

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Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) against women and girls has been the subject of increasing research and scholarship. Less is known about the health of men, boys and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and other gender non-binary persons who survive CRSV. This paper is the first systematic realist review on medical, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions that focusses on male and LGBT survivors of CRSV. The review explores the gender differences in context, mechanisms and outcomes that underpin interventions addressing the health and psychosocial wellbeing of male and LGBT survivors. The aim is to contribute to the design and delivery of gender-sensitive and, when needed, gender-specific approaches for interventions that respond to specific needs of different groups of all survivors. We conducted a systematic search of academic and grey literature to identify medical and MHPSS interventions that included men, boys and LGBT survivors. We identified interventions specifically targeting women and girls that we used as comparators. We then purposively sampled studies from the fields of gender and health, and sexual abuse against men and LGBT people for theory building and testing. We identified 26 evaluations of interventions for survivors of CRSV. Nine studies included male survivors, twelve studies focussed exclusively on female survivors and one study targeted children and adolescents. No intervention evaluation focussed on LGBT survivors of CRSV. The interventions that included male survivors did not describe specific components for this population. Results of intervention evaluations that included male survivors were not disaggregated by gender, and some studies did not report the gender composition. Although some mental health and psychosocial consequences of sexual violence against men and boys may be similar among male and female survivors, the way each process trauma, display symptoms, seek help, adhere to treatment and improve their mental health differ by gender. Initiatives targeting male and LGBT survivors of CRSV need to be designed to actively address specific gender differences in access, adherence and response to MHPSS interventions. Models of care that are gender-sensitive and integrated to local resources are promising avenues to promote the health of male and LGBT survivors of CRSV.

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Male and LGBT survivors of sexual violence in conflict situations: a realist review of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries

Kiss

Quinlan-Davidson

Pasquero³

et al. 2020

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“…All 31 studies included infrastructure-related discussion, which is the first item in the checklist. This criterion provides information about the minimum infrastructure required for each mHealth intervention and, thus, facilitates understanding of the viability, generalizability, and replicability of the mHealth 43 Afroze et al 44 Han et al 37 Islam et al 29 Lwin et al 45 Musyimi et al 46 Soto-Perez-De-Celis et al 32 Rishikesh 33 Bull et al 30 Lestantri et al 47 Guo et al 31 Borsari et al 48 Alnasser et al 49 Praveen et al 36 Ilozumba et al 38 Malik et al 50 Mishori et al 51 Li et al 52 Ginsburg et al 25 Lopez et al 26 Miah et al 53 Sobrinho et al 54 Wang et al 55 Bernardes-Souza et al 39 interventions. In regard to the second item in the checklist, technology platform, all 31 studies once again cover discussion regarding this criterion without which it is not possible to identify the constraints that might exist and inhibit the implementation and replicability of a mHealth program.…”

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Mobile health interventions in developing countries: A systematic review

Hoque¹,

Rahman

Nipa

et al. 2020

Health Informatics J

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This study reviews the quality of evidence reported in mobile health intervention literature in the context of developing countries. A systematic search of renowned databases was conducted to find studies related to mobile health applications published between a period of 2013 and 2018. After a methodological screening, a total of 31 studies were included for data extraction and synthesis. The mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist developed by the World Health Organization was then used to evaluate the rigor and completeness in evidence reporting. We report several important and interesting findings. First, there is a very low level of familiarity with the mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist among the researchers and mobile health intervention designers from developing countries. Second, most studies do not adequately meet the essential criteria of evidence reporting mentioned in the mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist. Third, there is a dearth of application of design science–based methods and theory-based frameworks in developing mobile health interventions. Fourth, most of the mobile health interventions are not ready for interoperability and to be integrated into the existing health information systems. Based on these findings, we recommend for robust and inclusive study plans to deliver highly evidence-based reports by mobile health intervention studies that are conducted in the context of developing countries.

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“…Informed by prior unpublished quality assessment tools [ 13 , 17 ], an initial draft index was developed to objectively assess key elements of the PRC Form. We defined data quality within its six well-established dimensions: accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness [ 18 ].…”

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Development and validation of a data quality index for forensic documentation of sexual and gender-based violence in Kenya

Olson

Macias‐Konstantopoulos

Muchai

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Introduction High-quality forensic documentation can improve justice outcomes for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, but there are limited tools to assess documentation data quality. This study aimed to develop and validate a data quality assessment index to objectively assess clinician documentation across the 26 key elements of the standardized forensic evidence forms used in Kenya. Methods Informed by prior quality assessment tools, an initial draft of the index was developed. Feedback from Kenya- and U.S.-based clinicians and human rights experts was solicited and incorporated into the draft index in an iterative fashion. Two raters independently employed the finalized Physicians for Human Rights Data Quality Index to assess and score the quality of documentation across 31 clinician-completed forms. Inter-rater reliability was determined using Cohen kappa (к) coefficients. Results The Index was found to have substantial overall reliability. Of the 26 documentation items, the Index had a perfect (к = 1.0) and almost perfect (к = 0.81–0.99) level of inter-rater agreement across 17 (65.4%) and 5 (19.2%) items, respectively. On a low-to-high documentation quality scale of 0 to 2, the majority of items (n = 19, 73.1%) had a mean documentation quality score >1.5–2. Conclusion Quality assurance of forensic documentation is an essential component of post-sexual assault care. To our knowledge, this is the first validated quality-assessment tool in the peer-reviewed literature for sexual assault documentation and may be a promising strategy to enhance the quality of sexual assault documentation in other settings, locally, regionally, and internationally.

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mJustice: Preliminary Development of a Mobile App for Medical-Forensic Documentation of Sexual Violence in Low-Resource Environments and Conflict Zones

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Male and LGBT survivors of sexual violence in conflict situations: a realist review of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries

Male and LGBT survivors of sexual violence in conflict situations: a realist review of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries

Mobile health interventions in developing countries: A systematic review

Development and validation of a data quality index for forensic documentation of sexual and gender-based violence in Kenya

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