Responding to Indigenous Australian sexual assault: a systematic review of the literature
McCalman, Janya, Bridge, Francesca, Whiteside, Mary, Bainbridge, Roxanne, Tsey, Komla, and Jongen, Crystal (2014) Responding to Indigenous Australian sexual assault: a systematic review of the literature. SAGE Open, 4. pp. 1-13.
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Abstract
Indigenous Australians experience a high prevalence of sexual assault, yet a regional sexual assault service found few Indigenous Australians accessed their services. This prompted exploration of how its services might be improved. A resultant systematic search of the literature is reported in this article. Seven electronic databases and seven websites were systematically searched for peer reviewed and gray literature documenting responses to the sexual assault of Indigenous Australians. These publications were then classified by response type and study type. Twenty-three publications met the inclusion criteria. They included studies of legal justice, media, and community-based and mainstream service responses for Indigenous survivors and perpetrators. We located program descriptions, measurement, and descriptive research, but no intervention studies. There is currently insufficient evidence to confidently prescribe what works to effectively respond to Indigenous Australian sexual assault. The study revealed an urgent need for researchers, Indigenous communities, and services to work together to develop the evidence base.
| Item ID: | 30980 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2158-2440 |
| Keywords: | sexual abuse, sexual violence, intimate partner sexual violence, rape, Indigenous |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 the Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Without requesting permission from the Author or SAGE, you may further copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the article, with the condition that the Author and SAGE Open are in each case credited as the source of the article. |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2014 04:54 |
| FoR Codes: | 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9203 Indigenous Health > 920301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health @ 20% 92 HEALTH > 9203 Indigenous Health > 920399 Indigenous Health not elsewhere classified @ 40% 94 LAW, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES > 9401 Community Service (excl. Work) > 940102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare @ 40% |
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