MethodsThe assessment instruments that have been used in studies of healthcare-based interventions for sexual violence victims/survivors were first identified through peer-reviewed publications that were written in English or Spanish and published between January 1990 and June 2005. An online link to the research findings presented in these publications can be found at: http://www.ipas.org/Topics/Research_Evaluation.aspx. Computerized literature searches were conducted using selected data bases, including Medline and Popline, and a variety of pertinent key words (e.g., sexual assault, rape, sexual violence). The co-authors also drew from their own collections of literature about gender-based violence, particularly in Spanish, and culled those articles that met the inclusion criteria, as defined below. Additionally, selected leaders in the field of violence against women were contacted and asked to identify pertinent publications for review. To be eligible for inclusion in this review, the assessment instrument had to have been used in an article that focused on the evaluation of healthcare-based interventions for women who experienced sexual violence. Each article needed to be published in a peer-reviewed journal in either English or Spanish between January 1990 and June 2005. The assessment instruments had to have been used in research that examined the provision of services to sexual violence victims/survivors in a hospital or healthcare clinic, or in training healthcare workers to provide care in these settings. “Care” is defined as those services, be they acute or more long-term, offered to victims/survivors and delivered at different points in time after the assault(s). Assessment instruments were not included in this review if they were used in studies that were set in other types of care environments (such as psychology clinics), were used in studies that primarily focused on legal outcomes of sexual assault victims seen by health care providers, or were used in studies that were secondary data analyses of survey data that did not focus on sexual violence (i.e., surveys that included information on the care provided to sexual violence survivors, but whose primary focus was a topic other than sexual violence). In addition, assessment instruments that took the form of medical record data abstraction forms were not included in this review. A “data abstraction form” was developed and used to review the identified assessment instruments. The abstraction form and resulting tables organizes and summarizes the following information about each instrument:
In the results section major findings from the review and summaries of each assessment instrument are provided, along with an online link to the tools, where available. |
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