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| Title |
The effects of sexual violence on psychosocial outcomes in formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda: the WAYS study
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| Published in |
BMC Psychology, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40359-015-0103-2 |
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| Authors |
Kennedy Amone-P’Olak, Emilio Ovuga, Peter Brian Jones |
| Abstract |
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. Data from an on-going War-Affected Youth Study (WAYS) in Uganda was used to compute the prevalence of psychosocial problems (scores ≥ 75th percentile) among three categories of formerly abducted girls (1) no history of sexual violence without children, 2) a history of sexual violence without children, and 3) a history of sexual violence with children as a consequence) among 210 women (age 22.06, SD = 2.06, range 18-25). Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to examine differences in psychosocial outcomes by the different categories of formerly abducted girls. Compared to participants with no history of sexual violence and without any children, the odds of adverse psychosocial outcomes were increasingly higher for all psychosocial dimensions for those who reported sexual violence with or without children. Those with a history of sexual violence and with children as a consequence had more than five times the odds of reporting depressive symptoms (OR, 5.37; 95 % CI (1.45-19.90), somatic complaints (OR, 6.59; 95 % CI (1.80 - 24.11), and stigma (OR, 13.85; 95 % CI (3.73 - 51.42) compared to those who did not report sexual violence. This study highlighted the risks of psychosocial problems among different categories of formerly abducted girls regarding sexual violence. Vulnerability to psychosocial problems among formerly abducted girls is further compounded by sexual violence, child care, stigma, and poverty. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 123 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 17% |
| Unknown | 42 | 34% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 19% |
| Psychology | 21 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 48 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2016.
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#7,284,512
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Psychology
#461
of 866 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112,555
of 395,755 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychology
#3
of 11 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 866 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.2. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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