In research on sexual assault victims' help-seeking, proxy data sources are often utilized because outreach to survivors immediately postassault may increase a study's risk-to-benefit ratio. Victim advocates and services providers are common proxy respondents, but empirical research comparing the accuracy of their information is needed. We collaborated with seven sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs to collect de-identified, paired data from nurses and advocates regarding the help-seeking experiences of N = 744 adult victims. Using pairwise McNemar tests, we found statistically significant agreement on victim demographics, assault characteristics, and victims' decisions regarding medical forensic exams, sexual assault kit (SAK) collection, and release of SAKs for forensic DNA testing. Nurses and advocates had different information regarding victims' disclosure histories and their reasons for seeking SANE care.

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开发创伤知情研究方法：使用代理受访者评估性侵犯幸存者寻求医学法医检查的经历。

在性侵犯受害者寻求帮助的研究中，经常使用代理数据源，因为在性侵犯后立即与幸存者联系可能会增加研究的风险收益比。受害者倡导者和服务提供者是常见的代理受访者，但需要进行比较他们信息准确性的实证研究。我们与七个性侵犯护士审查员 (SANE) 计划合作，从护士和倡导者那里收集关于 N = 744 名成年受害者寻求帮助的经验的去识别化配对数据。使用成对的 McNemar 测试，我们发现在受害者人口统计数据、攻击特征和受害者关于法医检查、性侵犯工具包 (SAK) 收集和用于法医 DNA 测试的 SAK 发布方面的决定具有统计学意义。