Prevalence of adult sexual abuse in men with mental illness: Bayesian meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual abuse is a broad category of traumatic experiences that includes rape and any unwanted sexual contact with a body part or foreign object, whether penetrative, oral or otherwise. Although patients with mental illness have a higher risk of becoming victims of sexual abuse in adulthood, few studies investigate the proportion of male victims in this population. Their underrepresentation in research is a barrier to understanding the negative outcomes associated with sexual abuse in men.

Aims

We estimated the prevalence of recent (past year) and adulthood sexual abuse perpetrated by any perpetrator and separately by intimate partners in males diagnosed with a mental illness.

Method

To model the prevalences and heterogeneity arising from reports, we used Ba

SUBMITTER: Zarchev M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8715257 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature