Table 2:

Percentage of respondents to the emergency department needs-assessment survey who agreed or strongly agreed with the following statements, based on amount of experience working with survivors of sexual assault

	1 or more years of experience (n=45)	Less than 1 year of experience (n=49)	Distribution p-value
I know the requirements of the SASETA	18%	6%	< 0.05
I am aware of my hospitals policies and procedures regarding cases of SA	51%	14%	<0.001
I am aware of what elements of the history to obtain from SA patients	76%	43%	<0.001
I am confident in my ability to avoid retraumatizing SA patients through my words and actions	67%	39%	<0.05
I feel comfortable counseling patients about the SA forensic exam	56%	22%	<0.001
I feel comfortable conducting a SA forensic exam using an ISPECK	44%	16%	<0.001
I feel adequately trained in TIC	61%	29%	<0.001
Part of the physician’s role is to determine whether SA occurred	13%	41%	<0.001
When drugs or alcohol are involved, I think there is a grey area in classifying cases of SA	4%	18%	<0.05
I always think patients who say they have been sexually assaulted are telling the truth	62%	37%	<0.05
I think that physicians should be specifically trained to care for SA patients	91%	86%	0.35

IPSECK = Illinois State Police Evidence Collection Kit; SA = sexual assault; SASETA = Sexual Assault Survivor Treatment Act; TIC = trauma-informed care

The statistical significance of the differences between the group distributions was determined using the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test. Statistical significance was set a priori as a two-tailed p-value <0.05.