The psychological impact of the rise in media reporting of sexual violence after COVID-19 pandemic on Pakistani women’s mental health

Purpose Pandemics usually have inequitable effects on the most vulnerable groups of society. Since the start of COVID-19, there has been a horrifying upsurge in cases of sexual and gender-based violence against women, globally. Consequently, frequent breaking news of sexual violence in media aggrava...

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Published in:	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Vol. 59; no. 12; pp. 2303 - 2311
Main Authors:	Ghazal, Pasha, Akbar, Shehzeen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2024 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Adult Anxiety - epidemiology Anxiety - psychology Chi-square test COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Depression - epidemiology Depression - psychology Epidemiology Female Humans Mass Media - statistics & numerical data Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mental Health Middle Aged News Pakistan - epidemiology Pandemics Psychiatry SARS-CoV-2 Sex crimes Sex Offenses - psychology Sex Offenses - statistics & numerical data Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Stress, Psychological - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Violence Women's Health Young Adult Pakistan COVID-19 pandemic Media reporting Sexual violence DASS-21 Women mental health
ISSN:	0933-7954, 1433-9285, 1433-9285
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