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Individual and community-level socioeconomic position and its association with adolescents experience of childhood sexual abuse : a multilevel analysis of six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Yahaya, Ismail, De Leon, Antonio Ponce, Uthman, Olalekan A., Soares, Joaquim and Macassa, Gloria (2014) Individual and community-level socioeconomic position and its association with adolescents experience of childhood sexual abuse : a multilevel analysis of six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Injury and Violence Research, Volume 6 (Number 1). pp. 21-26. doi:10.5249/jivr.v6i1.316 ISSN 2008-2053.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v6i1.316
Abstract
Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a substantial global health and human rights problem and consequently a growing concern in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the association between individual and community-level socioeconomic status (SES) and the likelihood of reporting CSA.
Methods: We applied multiple multilevel logistic regression analysis on Demographic and Health Survey data for 6,351female adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 years from six countries in sub-Saharan Africa, between 2006 and 2008. Results: About 70% of the reported cases of CSA were between 14 and 17 years. Zambia had the highest proportion of reported cases of CSA (5.8%). At the individual and community level, we found that there was no association between CSA and socioeconomic position. This study provides evidence that the likelihood of reporting CSA cut across all individual SES as well as all community socioeconomic strata.
Conclusions: We found no evidence of socioeconomic differentials in adolescents’ experience of CSA, suggesting that adolescents from the six countries studied experienced CSA regardless of their individual- and community-level socioeconomic position. However, we found some evidence of geographical clustering, adolescents in the same community are subject to common contextual influences. Further studies are needed to explore possible effects of countries’ political, social, economic, legal, and cultural impact on Childhood sexual abuse.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Child sexual abuse -- Africa | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Injury and Violence Research | ||||
Publisher: | Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences | ||||
ISSN: | 2008-2053 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 6 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 21-26 | ||||
DOI: | 10.5249/jivr.v6i1.316 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 November 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 November 2016 |
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