ArticleMedical care2018
Changes in Psychiatric and Medical Conditions and Health Care Utilization Following a Diagnosis of Sexual Assault: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
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- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Lead to Improved Uptake of Services: A Cross-Sectional Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Trauma Matters: Integrating Genetic and Environmental Components of PTSD.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Sexual minorities are not a homogeneous population: health disparity differences based on residence in rural versus urban settings.Rural and remote health · 2023Article
- Integrating genetics and transcriptomics to study major depressive disorder: a conceptual framework, bioinformatic approaches, and recent findings.Translational psychiatry · 2023Review
- Sex Differences in Health Conditions Associated with Sexual Assault in a Large Hospital Population.Complex psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mental health of sexual assault victims and predictors of their use of support from in-house psychologists at Belgian sexual assault care centres.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Trends in US Emergency Department Use After Sexual Assault, 2006-2019.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Mental Health Beliefs, Access, and Engagement with Military Sexual Trauma-Related Mental Health Care.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Beyond the Protocols: a Team-Based Learning Intervention Improving Student Knowledge and Confidence on Caring for Survivors of Sexual Assault.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Health care consumption and psychiatric diagnoses among adolescent girls 1 and 2 years after a first-time registered child sexual abuse experience: a cohort study in the Stockholm Region.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Health care utilization by women sexual assault survivors after emergency care: Results of a multisite prospective study.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
- Postpartum Health Care Among Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Distress: Opportunities for Prevention and Early Intervention Among Emerging Adult Women.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionSexual assault (SA) is alarmingly common and is associated with higher prevalence of psychiatric and medical conditions. However, many prior studies are limited to cross-sectional designs. Health care systems with electronic health records provide unique longitudinal data to examine whether SA is associated with changes in health and health care utilization.
methodsThe sample included 1350 Kaiser Permanente Northern California adult female patients with a SA diagnosis from 2009 to 2015 and 4050 adult female patients without a SA diagnosis, matched on age, medical facility, and continuous enrollment during the study period. Using a retrospective cohort design, we tested whether a SA diagnosis was associated with 12-month changes in psychiatric and medical comorbidities and health care utilization using difference-in-difference models. Analyses were conducted in 2017.
resultsPatients with a SA diagnosis had a higher prevalence of psychiatric and medical comorbidities and greater health care utilization than matched patients without SA in the 12 months before the SA diagnosis, and greater increases in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and stress-related somatic conditions, and psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology utilization (all P<0.001), 12 months after the SA diagnosis, relative to matched non-SA patients during this time. DISCUSSION: SA is associated with increases in psychiatric disorders and stress-related somatic conditions as well as increases in utilization of psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology. Clinicians should be trained in how to inquire about, respond to, and refer women who have experienced SA.
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