The Invisible Suffering: Sexual Coercion, Interpersonal Violence, and Mental Health - A Cross-Sectional Study among University Students in South-Western Uganda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Agardh, Anette ^a,b   Tumwine, Gilbert ^c   Asamoah, Benedict O ^a   Cantor Graae, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c St Francis Hospital Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; THREAT; UGANDA; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871126705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051424     Document Type: Article

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