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Freedom of Movement and Adolescent Sexual Violence in India by Raj, Anita; Singh, Abhishek; Silverman, Jay G.; Bhan, Nandita; Barker, Kathryn M.; McDougal, Lotus is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Freedom of Movement and Adolescent Sexual Violence in India about?
This study assesses associations between freedom of movement and sexual violence, both in marriage and outside of marriage, among a representative sample of adolescents in India. We analyzed data from girls aged 15 to 19 years ( n = 9,593) taken from India’s nationally representative National Family Health Survey 2015–2016. We defined freedom of movement using three items on whether girls could go unaccompanied to specified locations; we summated responses and categorized them as restricted, or unrestricted. We used multivariable regression to assess associations between restricted movement and nonmarital violence, and with marital sexual violence among ever-married girls. Results show that only 2% of girls reported nonmarital sexual violence, among married and unmarried girls; 6% of married girls reported marital sexual violence. Most girls (78%) reported some restriction in movement. Restricted movement was negatively associated with nonmarital sexual violence (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 0.52, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.31, 0.87], p = .01) but positively associated with marital sexual violence (AOR = 3.87, 95% CI = [1.82, 8.25], p < .001). Further analyses highlight that
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- Author
- Raj, Anita; Singh, Abhishek; Silverman, Jay G.; Bhan, Nandita; Barker, Kathryn M.; McDougal, Lotus
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications (ISSN 0886-2605)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences