Research Participants Wanted

[AnotherGirl]

My name is Monika Krvina, I am a Master student of Criminal and Investigative Psychology at the University of East London and I am asking rape and sexual assault survivors to speak out for my dissertation.

The purpose of this research project is to explore experience with partner's support after rape. Although it is completely your decision whether you take part or not, we hope you will. With your participation you will help us understand whether partner's support is important from a survivor's aspect or not, and also what does and does not help to recover from such a traumatic event, how to deal with PTSD. However, talking about the experience helps you to improve your healing as well.

Should you choose to participate, you will be individually interviewed via private messages, email, chatroom or skype, or if preferably, I can send you questions and you will answer them whenever you find the time for doing so. The questions you will be asked, will be focused only on the area of your experience and partner's support. You will not be asked to provide any information which could be used to identify you, and you have the right to withdraw at any point until the data analysis (15th of August).

Please consider, as a participant you can be of any sexual orientation, age, gender (males appreciated as well), race, religion or ethnicity, but you need to have had a partner during or soon after the experience of rape (or SA).

Thank you for taking your time to read this. Your input in this research would be very helpful. If you meet the criteria mentioned above and would like to participate, or you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact me via private message.

All the best, Monika

 

[Sammyiam]

Hi there,

I would be willing if it is 100 % sure I am in no way identified.

 

[AnotherGirl]

Hi Sammyian. I can guarantee for sure, you will not be identified, in any way. Everything about this reserach is confidential and anonymously. Also, I use pseudonyms instead of usernames or names, so no one will ever know who did I interview with. Is this okay with you?

 

[Friday]

Sure. PC me.

Although, while I meet your initial qualifications of having a partner during/immediately after rape/SA, I may not meet full qualifications for what you're looking for.

- My stuff gets complicated. There were at least 3 occasions where I was raped while I had a partner (first one, a fiancé; a later one I someone I loved dearly was also being held & tortured with me although they only used rape as a device on the women; another later one my rapist was my husband... Not the same man I was engaged to during my first rape). There may be others, those 3 are off the top of my head / as those 3 times were probably the most different from each other.

- I had PTSD prior to being raped from military/combat trauma.

Whether it can be used for your study or not, having my own spectrum to look at, it mattered far less whether or not I had a partner or not, or even who they themselves were/how they handled things, and far more how much I allowed them to have any influence over me.

 

[AnotherGirl]

FridayJones, thank you for response. I would be very happy if you could participate, it would be very interesting to hear a little different story. I will pm you, if that's okay with you?

 

[joeylittle]

@AnotherGirl, you can PM me.

 

[AnotherGirl]

I did send you a message, joeylittle :) take gentle care, Monika

 

[The Albatross]

You can pm me if you'd like also however, be advised my sexual assaults and rapes occurred over 25 years ago and some of them were spousal.

 

[AnotherGirl]

I will send you more information via pm :) take care.

 

[Seagreen]

I think I would meet the criteria to participate. You can pm me if you would like to.

 

[AnotherGirl]

I will pm you more information :) take care, Monika

 

[nie]

You may pm me if you need more input.