Sexual assault is one of the most violating and traumatising forms of abuse encountered by emergency department providers. Because the vast majority of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone known, and possibly even related to the survivor, feelings of profound betrayal and loss of trust can make emergency clinical evaluation, including forensic evidence collection, particularly challenging.1
As described in the EMJ paper by Muldoon and colleagues, the collection of forensic evidence by specially trained clinicians may increase the effectiveness of legal prosecution, and is often assumed to be a 'just' or, in other words, desired outcome.2 The decision to obtain, and then process, forensic evidence, however, must be an individual, personal decision made by each and every survivor, informed by their own priorities, values and needs, and supported non-judgementally by emergency healthcare providers acting in a trauma-informed manner.
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