TY - JOUR
T1 - Medico-legal history taking from the victims of sexual assaults
T2 - the role of nurse examiners
AU - Yesodharan, Renjulal
AU - Shehata, Shaimaa A.
AU - Jose, Tessy Treesa
AU - Hagras, Abeer M.
AU - Nayak, Vinod
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important to collect relevant information from the victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper the medico-legal evidence collection. Main text: This article aims to orient the novice examiner and nurses to the prerequisites of medico-legal history collection, techniques of building trust, establishing rapport, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, taking consent, communicating effectively with the victims of sexual assault, and components of medico-legal history collection. Conclusions: Novice examiners and nurses need to be trained in collecting medico-legal history and evidence. The examiners who conduct the examination should be dedicated to delivering compassionate and high-quality care to individuals who have disclosed sexual assault.
AB - Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important to collect relevant information from the victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper the medico-legal evidence collection. Main text: This article aims to orient the novice examiner and nurses to the prerequisites of medico-legal history collection, techniques of building trust, establishing rapport, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, taking consent, communicating effectively with the victims of sexual assault, and components of medico-legal history collection. Conclusions: Novice examiners and nurses need to be trained in collecting medico-legal history and evidence. The examiners who conduct the examination should be dedicated to delivering compassionate and high-quality care to individuals who have disclosed sexual assault.
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U2 - 10.1186/s41935-022-00284-4
DO - 10.1186/s41935-022-00284-4
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85131774383
SN - 2090-536X
VL - 12
JO - Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
JF - Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
IS - 1
M1 - 24
ER -