Assault details (location/relationship of victim to assailant) of those who did and did not attend follow-up at the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) network between 2017 and 2022
Variable (n=total for that variable) | % Attended follow-up (n=2221*) | % Did not attend follow-up (n=877*) | P value |
Location of assault* | |||
Assailant’s home (n=752) | 71.5% (538) | 28.5% (214) | 0.244 |
Field/park (n=211) | 77.7% (164) | 22.3% (47) | |
Home (n=605) | 69.1% (418) | 30.9% (187) | |
Other outdoors (n=475) | 71.6% (340) | 28.4% (135) | |
Other indoors (n=776) | 73.1% (567) | 26.9% (209) | |
Vehicle (n=146) | 66.4% (97) | 33.6% (49) | |
Unsure (n=106) | 75.5% (80) | 24.5% (26) | |
Other outdoors (n=27) | 64% (17) | 37.0% (10) | |
Assailant-victim relationship† | Attended follow-up % (n=2203†) | Did not attend follow-up % (n=859†) | |
Acquaintance <24 hours (n=523) | 76.3% (399) | 23.7% (124) | <0.001 |
Acquaintance >24 hours (n=616) | 75.3% (464) | 24.7% (152) | |
Intimate partner (n=140) | 57.9% (81) | 42.1% (59) | |
Ex-intimate partner (n=166) | 59.6% (99) | 40.4% (67) | |
Friend (n=437) | 74.4% (325) | 25.6% (112) | |
Stranger (n=810) | 70.3% (570) | 29.7% (241) | |
Person in authority (n=21) | 71.4% (15) | 28.6% (6) | |
Unknown (n=227) | 71.8% (163) | 28.2% (64) | |
Family member (n=82) | 67.1% (55) | 32.9% (27) | |
Other (n=39) | 82.1% (32) | 17.9% (7) |
The values of p indicate the overall association between the groups within the different variables, where a statistical significance was defined as value of p<0.05.
*Location of assault not recorded in 53 incidents.
†Description of assailant-victim relationship not recorded in 89 incidents.