Background: Sexual assault (SA) and the underreporting of SA are highly prevalent in the United States. Since regret is a complex, negative emotion linked to decision making, studying regret within the context of reporting SA is important.
Objective: To describe decisional regret regarding SA reporting.
Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive study design was used. The sample included 78 individuals, aged 18 to 25 years, who experienced SA during the past 5 years and completed an electronic questionnaire. A multiple regression model was generated to describe how selected independent variables explain variation in levels of regret.
Results: In the final model, four independent variables accounted for 33.3% (adjusted R (2)) of the variation in regret: weight change, stranger assailant, professional treatment, and police reporting.
Conclusions: The findings inform clinical practice by describing post-decisional regret about the reporting of SA, and they provide a foundation to develop strategies (e.g., decision aids) that can assist clinicians to help patients as they struggle to make difficult health care decisions.
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