Medico-legal Assessment of Sexual Violence-Assiut University

• Conditions: Attempted Rape of Female

• Registration Number: NCT05399563
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

* Medico legal assessment of sexual assaults allegations of females presented to hospital and any associated violence.

* Assessment of cases of pregnancy associated violence with other related complications that have both medical and legal implications.

* Knowing role of VAW Unit in compacting female abuse offering support and authentication of suspicious claims

Detailed Description

The data will be obtained after informed consents from cases. These cases will be then analyzed in terms of:

* Verifying legal procedures as careful reviewing of public prosecution order and associated victim's identification documents if present

* Obtain a detailed history including personal information as age, marital status' residence and education; incident circumstances like assault characteristics as numbers of assailants, relationship to the victim' place of assault' frequency of assault and the time lapse between examination and last assault, etc ; gynecologic and obstetric history.

* General examination that include proper documentation of all visible injuries all over the body (type' direction' location' shape) and local examination of genital or anal region and possibility of taking vaginal and anal swabs if possible.

* Re-examined victim after two weeks for exclude any venereal diseases and doing pregnancy test.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-03-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-27
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-19
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-22
• Study Start: 2022-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-05-28
• Study Completion: 2023-05-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• All females above ≥ 12 years old with suspicious sexual violence or illegal pregnancy or criminal induction of abortion.

Exclusion Criteria

• All females who will present to the women's health hospital above 12 years old for ordinary medical advice or treatment of gynecologic or obstetric complaints

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measure the prevalence of sexual violence problem among females	from 1-6-2022 to 28-5-2023	These cases will be then analyzed in terms of Verifying legal procedures as careful reviewing of public prosecution order and associated victim's identification documents if present