Kate Walsh, Nicole Short, Yin Yao Ji, Xin Ming An, Kristen D Witkemper, Megan Lechner, Kathy Bell, Jenny Black, Jennie Buchanan, Jeffrey Ho, Gordon Reed, Melissa Platt, Ralph Riviello, Sandra L Martin, Israel Liberzon, Sheila A M Rauch, Kenneth Bollen, Samuel A McLean
This study aims to develop and validate a brief bedside tool to screen women survivors presenting for emergency care following sexual assault for risk of persistent elevated posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) six months after assault. Participants were 547 cisgender women sexual assault survivors who presented to one of 13 sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs for medical care within 72 h of a sexual assault and completed surveys one week and six months after the assault. Data on 222 potential predictors from the SANE visit and the week one survey spanning seven broadly-defined risk factor domains were candidates for inclusion in the screening tool...
April 9, 2024: Journal of Psychiatric Research