Sexual Violence

Data on Sexual Violence Described by Researchers at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 16th, 2011

2011 JUN 16 -- In this recently published study, investigators in Atlanta, United States conducted a study "To explore risk factors for sexual violence in childhood in a nationally representative sample of females aged 13 to 24 years in Swaziland. During a household survey respondents were asked to report any experiences of sexual violence before the age of 18 years."

"The association between childhood sexual violence and several potential demographic and social risk factors was explored through bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. Participants totalled 1244. Compared with respondents who had been close to their biological mothers as children,...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-06-16)

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