Child sexual abuse and its outcomes among high school students in southwest Ethiopia

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 137-140

  Worku, Dereje ^a   Gebremariam, Abebe ^b   Jayalakshmi, S ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Department of Population and Family Health ^*  (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; VERBAL HOSTILITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS;

EID: 33746767098     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947506777978325     Document Type: Article

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