Reported Methods, Distributions, and Frequencies of Torture Globally: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite its prohibition by the United Nations Convention against Torture and other international treaties, torture has been perpetrated against countless individuals worldwide, and health care practitioners globally are increasingly encountering refugee torture survivors in their clinical practices. The methods, geographic distribution, and frequency of torture globally are not well described, which limits health care practitioners' ability to adequately diagnose and treat the sequelae of torture.

Objective

To rank the commonness of torture methods and identify the regions of the world with which they are associated.

Data sources

For this systematic review and meta-analysis, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Web of Science, and The Cochrane Library were searched f

SUBMITTER: Milewski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548313 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature