Intimate partner violence against adolescent girls: regional and national prevalence estimates and associated country-level factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem and negatively affects short-term and long-term health, development, and wellbeing of adolescent girls. Global estimates from WHO have shown that adolescent girls aged 15-19 years experience high rates of intimate partner violence. We aimed to estimate the lifetime and past-year prevalence and patterns of physical or sexual intimate partner violence against adolescent girls by male partners across 161 countries and areas, and to examine the country-level factors, including the prevalence of child marriage, associated with the lifetime and past-year prevalence of intimate partner violence in this age group.

Methods

These analyses used the 2018 global, regional, and country estimates on intimate partner vi

SUBMITTER: Sardinha L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11319864 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature