The impact of sexual violence in mid-adolescence on mental health: a UK population-based longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A large gender gap appears in internalising mental health conditions during adolescence, with higher rates in girls than boys. There is little high-quality longitudinal population-based research investigating the role of sexual violence experiences, which are disproportionately experienced by girls. We aimed to estimate the effects of sexual violence experienced in mid-adolescence on mental health outcomes.

Methods

In this study, we used data from the longitudinal UK Millennium Cohort Study, a large nationally representative cohort of children born in the UK in 2000-02, for participants with information available at age 17 years on sexual violence in the past year (eg, sexual assault or unwelcome sexual approach), mental health outcomes (eg, completion of the Kess

SUBMITTER: Bentivegna F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9630148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature