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- Title
Evaluation of a Sexual Assault Education/Prevention Program for Female U.S, Navy Personnel.
- Authors
Rau, Terri J.; Merrill, Lex L.; McWhorter, Stephanie K.; Stander, Valerie A.; Thomsen, Cynthia J.; Dyslin, Christopher W.; Crouch, Julie L.; Rabenhorst, Mandy M.; Milner, Joel S.
- Abstract
The U.S. Navy Sexual Assault Intervention Training (SAIT) program for women was evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. The SAIT uses multiple presentation modalities (lecture, slides, discussion, film) to provide information related to sexual assault, including risk factors, consequences, prevention, and relevant military regulations. Female personnel who had completed basic training (N = 550) participated in the SAIT or a Comparison condition, and then completed measures of rape knowledge, empathy for rape victims, and acceptance of rape myths (false beliefs about rape justifying sexual violence). Results showed that the SAIT increased factual knowledge about rape. In addition, the SAIT increased empathy with rape victims in some groups of women. However, the program did not reduce women's rape myth acceptance. Given the enormity of the problem of sexual assault and these promising initial findings, additional research on the efficacy of the SAIT is clearly warranted.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RAPE prevention; ANTI-rape movement; WOMEN military personnel; BASIC training (Military education); UNITED States. Navy; DISEASES
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2011, Vol 176, Issue 10, p1178
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00298