SynthesisBulletin of the World Health Organization2018
Violence motivated by perception of sexual orientation and gender identity: a systematic review.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Sexual and Gender Minority Migrants' Experiences of Health Service Access and Utilisation: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- School-Based Interventions to Prevent Dating and Relationship Violence and Gender-Based Violence: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.American journal of public health · 2023Pooled it
- Sexual orientation, crime victimization, and relationship to the offender: Insights from New Zealand police records, 2014-2024.Public health · 2026Article
- Excess Burdens and Mental Health Consequences of Physical Violence Victimization Among Sexual Minority Adolescents and Young Adults in Colombia and Honduras: A Pooled Population-Based Study.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2025Article
- Provision of gender-affirming hormones for trans and gender-diverse adults: a systematic review of health and quality of life outcomes, values and preferences, and costs.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Review
- Provision of gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse adults: a systematic review of health and quality of life outcomes, values and preferences, and costs.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Review
- The Health Sector Response to Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health Programs in the Commonwealth and Selected African Countries: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Mental health and its drivers in lesbian, bisexual and queer-identifying women at a South African higher education institution: a qualitative study.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- Intimate partner violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex relationships: a call for research-to-action partnerships in higher education settings.BMC global and public health · 2024Article
- Sexual satisfaction, an indicator of sexual health and well-being? Insights from STI/HIV prevention research in European men who have sex with men.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Assessment and determinants of depression and anxiety on a global sample of sexual and gender diverse people at high risk of HIV: a public health approach.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Lifetime sexual violence among transgender women and travestis (TGW) in Brazil: Prevalence and associated factors.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, and opinions of the employees about GBV: a national online study in South Africa.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Epidemiology and determinants of reemerging bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and emerging STIs in Europe.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Review
- "The pandemic only gave visibility to what is invisible": a qualitative analysis of structural violence during COVID-19 and impacts on gender-based violence in Brazil.BMC public health · 2023Article
- A cross-sectional study on resilience, anxiety, depression, and psychoactive substance use among heterosexual and sexual minority adolescents in Nigeria.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Targeted Violence as a Risk Factor for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Cisgender Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who have Sex with Men in the United States.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Societal stigma and mistreatment in healthcare among gender minority people: a cross-sectional study.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- The Impact of Sexual Violence on Quality of Life and Mental Wellbeing in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults: A Mixed-Methods Approach.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic inequality, health inequity and well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the prevalence of physical and sexual violence motivated by perception of sexual orientation and gender identity in sexual and gender minorities.
methodsWe searched nine databases without language restrictions for peer-reviewed and grey literature published from 2000 to April 2016. We included studies with more than 50 participants that measured the prevalence of physical and sexual violence perceived as being motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity or gender expression. We excluded intimate partner violence and self-harm. Due to heterogeneity and the absence of confidence intervals in most studies, we made no meta-analysis.
findingsWe included 76 articles from 50 countries. These covered 74 studies conducted between 1995 and 2014, including a total of 202 607 sexual and gender minority participants. The quality of data was relatively poor due to a lack of standardized measures and sometimes small and non-randomized samples. In studies where all sexual and gender minorities were analysed as one population, the prevalence of physical and sexual violence ranged from 6% (in a study including 240 people) to 25% (49/196 people) and 5.6% (28/504) to 11.4% (55/484), respectively. For transgender people the prevalence ranged from 11.8% (of a subsample of 34 people) to 68.2% (75/110) and 7.0% (in a study including 255 people) to 49.1% (54/110).
conclusionMore data are needed on the prevalence, risk factors and consequences of physical and sexual violence motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity in different geographical and cultural settings. National violence prevention policies and interventions should include sexual and gender minorities.
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