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Women had an inherent sense of knowing how to manage their lives after sexual assault by men they knew

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.3.2.60

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    Draucker CB.Knowing what to do: coping with sexual violence by male intimates.Qual Health Res1999 Sep;9:588–601OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    QUESTION: What is the meaning of sexual violence in the lives of women who have been sexually assaulted by men they knew well?

    Design

    Heideggerian hermeneutics.

    Setting

    Northwestern Ohio, USA.

    Participants

    10 women >18 years of age (age range 19-57 y, 8 white, 2 African-American) who had been sexually assaulted as adults by men they knew well were recruited by public announcements. 7 of the women had experienced childhood abuse or neglect, and many had several abusive relationships as adults.

    Methods

    1–3 hour interviews were held with each woman and began with open ended questions about the meaning of the experience of sexual violence and how it affected their day to day lives. The author and another psychiatric nurse independently reviewed the interview transcripts, prepared written interpretations, and discussed and compared the interpretations. A qualitative research group also reviewed selected transcripts and commented on the emerging themes. 5 …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: National Institute of Nursing Research.

    • For correspondence: Dr C B Draucker, College of Nursing, Henderson Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA. Fax +1 330 672 2433.