Psychiatric morbidity among sexually abused children and adolescents
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Psychiatric morbidity among sexually abused children and adolescents.
OBJECTIVES To describe the social demographic profile and identify psychiatric morbidity in sexually abused children and adolescents. DESIGN A Cross-sectional descriptive survey. SETTING Nairobi Women's Hospital (NWH) Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC), Hurlingham, Nairobi-Kenya. SUBJECTS A sample of 61 sexually abused children and adolescents aged 7-17 years. RESULTS Eighty two per...
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عنوان ژورنال: East African Medical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0012-835X
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v85i2.9611