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Social disorganization and history of child sexual abuse against girls in sub-Saharan Africa : a multilevel analysis
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Yahaya, Ismail, Uthman, Olalekan A., Soares, Joaquim and Macassa, Gloria (2013) Social disorganization and history of child sexual abuse against girls in sub-Saharan Africa : a multilevel analysis. BMC International Health and Human Rights, Volume 13 (Number 1). p. 33. doi:10.1186/1472-698X-13-33 ISSN 1472-698X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-13-33
Abstract
Background:
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a considerable public health problem. Less focus has been paid to the role of community level factors associated with CSA. The aim of this study was to examine the association between neighbourhood-level measures of social disorganization and CSA.
Methods:
We applied multiple multilevel logistic regression analysis on Demographic and Health Survey data for 6,351 adolescents from six countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2006 and 2008.
Results:
The percentage of adolescents that had experienced CSA ranged from 1.04% to 5.84%. There was a significant variation in the odds of reporting CSA across the communities, suggesting 18% of the variation in CSA could be attributed to community level factors. Respondents currently employed were more likely to have reported CSA than those who were unemployed (odds ratio [OR] = 2.05, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.48 to 2.83). Respondents from communities with a high family disruption rate were 57% more likely to have reported CSA (OR=1.57, 95% CI 1.14 to 2.16).
Conclusion:
We found that exposure to CSA was associated with high community level of family disruption, thus suggesting that neighbourhoods may indeed have significant important effects on exposure to CSA. Further studies are needed to explore pathways that connect the individual and neighbourhood levels, that is, means through which deleterious neighbourhood effects are transmitted to individuals.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Child sexual abuse -- Africa, Child sexual abuse -- Research, Communities -- Africa, Social groups -- Africa, Neighborhoods -- Africa | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMC International Health and Human Rights | ||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1472-698X | ||||
Official Date: | 7 August 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 13 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | p. 33 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1186/1472-698X-13-33 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 December 2015 |
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