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P0001 - Sexual Violence among women in Marrakech
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
Sexual violence is considered today as an important social problem touching especially women and children.
We carried out a retrospective study in an association of assistance of women and children victims of sexual aggression on a sample of 96 women between 2006 and 2007, we have use a structured questionnaire,specifying socio-demographic characteristics of both sex offenders and victims, the nature and circumstances of aggression, the description of sexual hurts, the physical and psychical impact, and finally medical and psychiatric taking care on victims.
Victims were aged 17-58 ans (mean age 28,31 years), 61,5% were married, 75% did not have a job, almost the half of the women was without level of instruction (49%), they were sexually agressed in 91,7%, sexualy harassed in 9,4%. Several sexual attacks were objectified at the victim's in 78,1%. Sex offenders were aged 21-60 ans (mean age 35,48 years),they were the husbands in 55,2%. The sexual violence was accompanied with physical violence in 87,5%. No sexual hurt was objectivized in 63,5%. Two thirds of the victims consulted at a doctor's (67,7%), The gynecologists and the general practitioners were the first consulted doctors (32,3% et 31,3%). Depression was diagnosed in12,5%. The victims divorced further to sexual violence in 38,5%. The victims benefited from a psychiatric treatment in 19,8%. The majority of the victims lodged a complaint against their aggressors (84,4%).
sexual violence is reported frequently recently in Morocco, developing preventive programs against this phenomenon is required.
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- Poster Session I: Stress
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue S2: 16th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 16th AEP Congress , April 2008 , pp. S81
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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