Outcome Indicators for Sexual Assault Victims

Johnston, Brenda J.

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“…This focus of this review was limited to evaluation reports and peer-reviewed publications that (1) reported on systematic data collection and (2) examined SARTs’ effectiveness and/or challenges faced. Therefore, the following types of publications were excluded: theoretical discussions of the SART model (Ferguson, 2006; Girardin, 2005; Ledray, 1999; Taylor, 2002; Voekler, 1996; five studies), descriptive studies or discussion of individual SARTs (e.g., Botello, King, & Ratner, 2003; Dandino-Abbott, 1999; Fulginiti et al, 1996; Hatmaker, Pinholster, & Saye, 2002; Johnston, 2005; Peterson et al, 2009; Smith, Holmseth, MacGregor, & Letourneau, 1998; Zajac 2006, 2009; nine studies), and articles that sought to provide information about sexual assault to SARTs (Archambault & Faugno, 2001; Ledray, 2001b; Nakajima, 2005; three studies). Additionally, articles that described what a SART is, how it should be structured or function and/or its potential benefits, but did not report on systematic data collection or evaluation were excluded.…”

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Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Greeson

Campbell

2012

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Historically, the response of the legal, medical, and mental health/advocacy systems to sexual assault has been inadequate and uncoordinated. To address this problem, communities have developed coordinated sexual assault response teams (SARTs) to address these problems. SARTs are community-level interventions that seek to build positive relationships and increase collaboration among sexual assault responders. SARTs hope to improve both the community response to sexual assault victims and the processing of sexual assault cases through the criminal justice system. This article has three aims: to summarize the historical development of SARTs in the United States, to review the empirical literature on SARTs' effectiveness at improving multidisciplinary relationships, legal outcomes, and victims' help-seeking experiences; and to review the empirical literature on the challenges SARTs face, which may hamper their effectiveness. Findings suggest that SARTs are a promising practice, but face many challenges; further methodologically rigorous research is needed to more fully understand these interventions. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.

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Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Greeson

Campbell

2012

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…While there is a vast “gray literature” based on practitioners’ experiences that provides guidelines for how SARTs should be implemented, there is limited social science empirical literature on how SARTs are actually implemented. Thus far, prior research on the structure and functioning of SARTs consists of studies of a small number of SARTs (Dandino-Abbott, 1999; Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, 2003; Johnston, 2005; Nugent-Borakove et al, 2006; Wilson & Klein, 2005) and two national surveys conducted by the NSVRC that utilized convenience sampling methods (Zajac, 2006, 2009). While valuable, the studies of a small number of SARTs are limited in their ability to provide insight into how SARTs generally are structured and function.…”

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Coordinated Community Efforts to Respond to Sexual Assault

Greeson

Campbell

2014

J Interpers Violence

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Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) bring together sexual assault responders (e.g., police, prosecutors, medical/forensic examiners, rape victim advocates) to coordinate and improve the response to sexual assault. Ultimately, SARTs seek to improve sexual assault victims' experiences of seeking help and sexual assault case outcomes in the criminal justice system. To date, there are hundreds of SARTs across the United States and yet, there has been no nationally representative study of how SARTs are implemented. Therefore, the current study used a multistep process to create the first sampling frame of SARTs and then studied how SARTs are structured and function within a random sample of SARTs. Findings reveal commonalities as well as variation across SARTs. Most SARTs rated improving legal outcomes, improving victims' help-seeking experiences, and prevention/education as important goals, yet most prioritized their time and energy toward victims' experiences. SARTs' membership varied, with an average of 12 organizations involved in the SART, and 75% of SARTs having active membership from police, prosecutors, rape victim advocates, and medical/forensic examiners. SARTs were moderately formalized and most SARTs engaged in most collaborative processes (e.g., multidisciplinary cross-training, case review, policy/protocol development, and review) on an as needed basis. Finally, results revealed that some types of cross-system coordination in responding to victims/cases were quite frequent, whereas other types of coordination were quite infrequent. Implications for future research and supporting the development and sustainability of SARTs are discussed.

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“…The SANE role, followed by the considerable formative professional processes within forensic nursing, has led the forensic community in the development of protocols and standards for the care of sexual assault patients (ACEP, 1999; Johnston, 2005; Plichta, Clements, & Houseman, 2007; USDOJ, OVW], 2004). However, research is needed to examine image quality of digital photo documentation and provide evidence to guide future protocols and training guidelines for the provision of care to victims of sexual assault.…”

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Evaluation of image quality of digital photo documentation of female genital injuries following sexual assault

Ernst

Speck

Fitzpatrick

2011

Journal of Forensic Nursing

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With the patient's consent, physical injuries sustained in a sexual assault are evaluated and treated by the sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) and documented on preprinted traumagrams and with photographs. Digital imaging is now available to the SANE for documentation of sexual assault injuries, but studies of the image quality of forensic digital imaging of female genital injuries after sexual assault were not found in the literature. The Photo Documentation Image Quality Scoring System (PDIQSS) was developed to rate the image quality of digital photo documentation of female genital injuries after sexual assault. Three expert observers performed evaluations on 30 separate images at two points in time. An image quality score, the sum of eight integral technical and anatomical attributes on the PDIQSS, was obtained for each image. Individual image quality ratings, defined by rating image quality for each of the data, were also determined. The results demonstrated a high level of image quality and agreement when measured in all dimensions. For the SANE in clinical practice, the results of this study indicate that a high degree of agreement exists between expert observers when using the PDIQSS to rate image quality of individual digital photographs of female genital injuries after sexual assault.

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Outcome Indicators for Sexual Assault Victims

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

Coordinated Community Efforts to Respond to Sexual Assault

Evaluation of image quality of digital photo documentation of female genital injuries following sexual assault

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