Gender-based violence among healthcare students: Prevalence, description and associated factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aims of the current study were 1) to provide the prevalence of five types of gender-based violence (GBV) among male and female healthcare students; 2) to describe perpetrators' status, where the GBV occurred, and psychological and behavioural impacts of the GBV; and 3) to identify factors associated with GBV.

Design

A cross-sectional study was conducted among voluntary healthcare students in France.

Setting

Health Campus at Rouen and nursing schools in Normandy, France.

Participants

Volunteer healthcare students of 18 years and over.

Data collected

Five types of GBV were recorded: GBV1: damage to a person's image due to a sexual connotation on social networks, GBV2: sexist remarks and behaviour, GBV3: comments with sexual connotations, GBV

SUBMITTER: Tavolacci MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688729 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature