@article{ref1,
title="Regret and Police Reporting Among Individuals Who Have Experienced Sexual Assault",
journal="Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association",
year="2012",
author="Marchetti, Carol Anne",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="32-39",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Sexual assault (SA) and the underreporting of SA are highly prevalent in the United States. Since regret is a complex, negative emotion linked to decision making, studying regret within the context of reporting SA is important. OBJECTIVE: To describe decisional regret regarding SA reporting. DESIGN: A cross-sectional, descriptive study design was used. The sample included 78 individuals, aged 18 to 25 years, who experienced SA during the past 5 years and completed an electronic questionnaire. A multiple regression model was generated to describe how selected independent variables explain variation in levels of regret. RESULTS: In the final model, four independent variables accounted for 33.3% (adjusted R(2)) of the variation in regret: weight change, stranger assailant, professional treatment, and police reporting. CONCLUSIONS: The findings inform clinical practice by describing post-decisional regret about the reporting of SA, and they provide a foundation to develop strategies (e.g., decision aids) that can assist clinicians to help patients as they struggle to make difficult health care decisions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1078-3903",
doi="10.1177/1078390311431889",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078390311431889"
}