SynthesisBMC women's health2023
Sexual violence against women remains problematic and highly prevalent around the world.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of sexual violence against sex workers: implications for mental and sexual health.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Technology-facilitated sexual violence against women and its health impact: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Bystander interventions against gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators to Screening College Women for Intimate Partner Violence/Sexual Violence in Campus Health Centers: A Qualitative Study.Violence against women · 2026Article
- Rape Myth Acceptance, Gender Roles, and Sexual Conservatism: An Intergenerational Study of Mothers and Daughters in Religious and Secular Communities.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Adapting, Sustaining and Scaling Violence against Women and Children Prevention Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review on the Use of Implementation Science.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Article
- Emergency Department Visits for Sexual Assault: A Retrospective Review of Injury Reports.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Experiences of infertility-related traumatic events and their association with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD: results from a mixed-methods online survey.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Resilience among women survivors of intimate partner violence: Coping, meaning-making, and well-being.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Prevalence of Sexual Violence and Its Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women in Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of pregnancy · 2026Article
- Longitudinal effects of pregnancy on PTSD symptoms in black female participants: Moderation by sexual trauma and progesterone.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- The global disease burden attributable to unsafe sex among women from 1990 to 2021 with forecasts to 2035: a systematic analysis based on the global burden of disease 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Factors influencing help-seeking behaviour among young women with experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Sexual trauma and interest in mobile health among women with mental illness in Ghana.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Sexual violence across gender identities and sexual orientations: a stratified, population-based, cross-sectional study among young people aged 16-29 years in Sweden.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Emotional reactions and psychological responses expressed by adolescent and adult women survivors of sexual violence during outpatient follow-up.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025Article
- [Addressing sexual violence in health services].Atencion primaria · 2024Article
- Domestic, family and sexual violence polyvictimisation and health experiences of Australian nurses, midwives and carers: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Going Beyond Childhood and Gender-Based Violence: Epigenetic Modifications and Inheritance.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Sexual Violence and Alcohol Intake: A Population-Based Explorative Study in a Northwestern Italian Area.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSexual violence is far more prevalent in most societies than is usually suspected in daily life. However, no study has systematically summarized the global prevalence rate and the major outcomes of sexual violence against women.
methodsWe directed a wide-raging search in the PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science, catalogs since the beginning to December 2022 for relevant reports about the incidence of sexual fighting touching females. The occurrence frequency was assessed with a random-effects model. The heterogeneity was estimated with I
resultsA total of 32 cross-sectional studies were included (a total of 19,125 participants). The pooled sexual violence rate was 0.29 (95% CI = 0.25-0.34). Subgroup analyses found that there was a higher rate of sexual violence against women in 2010-2019 period (0.33, 95% CI = 0.27-0.37), developing countries (0.32, 95% CI = 0.28-0.37), and interview (0.39, 95% CI = 0.29-0.49). The analysis found that more than half of women (0.56, 95% CI = 0.37-0.75) had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing sexual violence, and only a third of women considered seeking support (0.34, 95% CI = 0.13-0.55).
conclusionsNearly one out of every three (29%) women around the world has been a victim of sexual violence in their life. This current study investigated the status and characteristics of sexual violence against women, which could provide an important reference for police and emergency health services management.
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