Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence in situations of fragility and conflict. Sexual and physical violence against women and girls are often used to dominate, to terrorize, and to humiliate people (World Bank 2011). During conflict, they are often sexually tortured and abused with devastating physical and psychological trauma. The high level of sexual and gender-based ...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence are public health problems known to have a negative impact on millions of persons in the United States each year, not only by way of immediate harm but also through negative long-term health impacts. Before implementation of the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) in 2010, the most recent detaile...

  Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and risky sexual behaviors are serious and overlapping public health problems that disproportionately affect drug-involved women. Despite the fact that drug-using women experience extensive IPV, to date, no studies have investigated the association of IPV and risky sexual behaviors among drug-using women in Iran.   Methods : Drug-using ...

background: violence against women is a serious social problem and affects mainly young women. this study aimed to evaluate sexual violence against women in campina grande, brazil. methods: a retrospective study with analysis of 886 forensic medical reports of sexual violence from the institute of legal medicine of campina grande, brazil, was conducted between january 2005 and december 2009. so...

Objectives: the prevalence of gender and sexual violence, its association with gender and ethical attitudes and the experience of suffering and perpetration of violence were evaluated among students at a public university in Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study analyzed the answers given by 2430 students to a questionnaire sent by internet. Results: among girls, 56.3% had been subjected to ...

BACKGROUND One in five women will experience sexual violence in their lifetime. As a consequence of this violence, survivors face health care concerns such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and gynecologic problems. Nurses are at the forefront of health care delivery to survivors of sexual violence, yet literature about nursing curricula addressing sexual violence is scant. METHOD A ho...

background: there are high levels of sexual harassment in health care systems. also, workplace violence occurs against ethnic and racial minorities. this study aimed to identify the frequency of and the factors contributing to and preventing sexual and racial harassment in the workplace towards health professionals in iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 6500 out of 57000 ...

This study examines the relationship between dating violence, forced sexual intercourse (FSI), and four measures of sexual risk taking (i.e., age at first sex, number of recent (within the last three months) sex partners, alcohol/drug use at last sex, and condom use at last sex) among a sample of 1124 ethnically diverse sexually active adolescents in Illinois. Given conflicting reports regardin...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of sexual violence on the odds of different psychosocial outcomes (depression, psychotic symptoms, somatic complaints, conduct problems, daily functioning, community relations, and stigma) among formerly abducted girls in Uganda. METHODS Data from an on-going War-Affected Youth Study (WAYS) in Uganda was used to compute the ...

INTRODUCTION Bystander-based programs have shown promise to reduce interpersonal violence at colleges, yet limited rigorous evaluations have addressed bystander intervention effectiveness in high schools. This study evaluated the Green Dot bystander intervention to reduce sexual violence and related forms of interpersonal violence in 26 high schools over 5 years. DESIGN A cluster RCT was cond...