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Table 5 Adult sexual assault prevalence. Values are numbers (percentages) unless otherwise stated

From: “You can’t swim well if there is a weight dragging you down”: cross-sectional study of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse prevalence against Australian nurses, midwives and carers

Types of abuse

Women’s lifetime prevalence

Men’s lifetime prevalence

 

n = 8696

n = 593

Sexual assault (since 15 yrs)

1618 (18.6)

42 (7.1)

Male perpetrator

1589 (99.5)

31 (75.6)

Perpetrator relationship

n = 1320

n = 35

 Stranger

302 (22.8)

*

 Friend/acquaintance

580 (43.9)

*

 Date/hook-up

157 (11.9)

*

 Patient

24 (1.8)

*

 Colleague

72 (5.4)

*

 Manager/senior

55 (4.2)

*

 Someone in the family (i.e. in-laws)

130 (9.8)

*

 

n = 8696

n = 593

Perpetrator worked at same workplace

146 (9.6)

*

More than 1 incident of sexual assault

679 (42.0)

23 (54.8)

  1. Denominators vary due to missing responses; base = all survey participants who responded
  2. *Numerator too small to report (≤15)