ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2024
Sexual harassment, sexual violence and subsequent depression and anxiety symptoms among Swedish university students: a cohort study.
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- Bullying and sexual harassment of medical and nursing students, in relation to stress, burnout and intention to dropout.International journal of medical education · 2026Article
- Sexual Violence in University Sports Teams: Female Student-Athletes' Experiences in Three Quebec Higher Education Institutions.Violence against women · 2026Article
- Effects of General and Sexual Aggression on the Job, Health and Psychological Outcomes of Women Reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Unacceptable Experiences Reported by Undergraduate Students and Their Associations With Mental Health, Well-Being and Academic Performance: U-Flourish Student Well-Being Research: Expériences inacceptables signalées par les étudiants de premier cycle et leurs liens avec la santé mentale, le bien-être et le rendement académique : Programme de recherche U-Flourish sur le bien-être des étudiants.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- A comparative analysis of inequalities in sexual violence before age 18 among women in Ghana using the WHO health equity assessment toolkit, 2008 and 2022.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the gender-specific impact of recent exposure to different forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence (SHV) on depression and anxiety symptoms three, six, and nine months later.
methodsWe recruited 2229 women and 1274 men studying at Swedish universities and followed them with web-surveys every three months over one year. We estimated mean differences (MDs) of depression and anxiety symptoms between exposed and unexposed at each follow-up, adjusting for prior SHV, prior depression and anxiety symptoms and potential confounders.
resultsFor women, sexual harassment (wide subjective definition) was associated with higher symptom levels of depression (MD 1.0 [95% CI: 0.3; 1.7]) and anxiety (MD 0.8 [95% CI: 0.3; 1.4]) three months later. Unwanted sexual attention was associated with higher symptom levels of anxiety three (MD 0.5 [95% CI: 0.1; 0.8]) and six months later (MD 0.4 [95% CI: 0.0; 0.7]). Exposure to sex against ones will was associated with higher depression symptoms three (MD 1.7 [95% CI: 0.1;3.4]), and six months later (MD 3.1 [95% CI: 1.0; 5.2]). Trends indicated that associations with subsequent mental health differed between forms of SHV among women, and that most associations were more pronounced in temporal proximity to the exposures. For men, we refrain from interpreting the results since they showed high variability and were not robust to sensitivity analyses using multiple imputation to account for missing outcome data.
conclusionsAmong women, several forms of SHV were associated with higher subsequent depression and anxiety symptoms.
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