Psycho-social sufferings and sexual difficulties among female survivors of child sexual abuse in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child sexual abuse is a universal social challenge and the victims of childhood sexual abuse suffer a range of short and long term psychological, social, behavioral and physical problems that vary in different cultures. The study was carried out to explore the perceived impacts of childhood sexual abuse in Pakistan, because no such study was conducted in Pakistan earlier.

Methods

Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the data. A snowball sampling technique was used to approach the sample of current study. The sample of the study comprised ten female survivors of childhood sexual abuse of age ranged between 18 and 22 years (M_age= 20.10 years) with the education ranging from matric to BSc. Out of these participants, four were marrie

SUBMITTER: Batool SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11360298 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature