A Self-Defense Program Reduces the Incidence of Sexual Assault in Kenyan Adolescent Girls

To determine the effect of a standardized 6-week self-defense program on the incidence of sexual assault in adolescent high school girls in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Population-based survey of 522 high school girls in the Korogocho-Kariobangi locations in Nairobi, Kenya, at baseline and 10 mo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of adolescent health Jg. 53; H. 3; S. 374 - 380
Hauptverfasser: Sinclair, Jake, Sinclair, Lee, Otieno, Evans, Mulinge, Munyae, Kapphahn, Cynthia, Golden, Neville H.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.09.2013
Elsevier
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Adolescent girls
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Crime Victims
Cross-Sectional Studies
Curriculum
Female
Girls
Health Behavior
High schools
Humans
Kenya
Life skills
Medical sciences
Mental health
Pediatrics
Poverty Areas
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rape
Rape - prevention & control
School Health Services - organization & administration
Sexual assault
Slum communities
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Surveys and Questionnaires
Urban Population
Victimology
Women's Health
Young Adult
Kenya
Africa
Adolescent girls
Rape
Sexual assault
Human
Participation
Sanitary program
Mental health
Victimology
Prevention
Adolescent
Female
Sexual abuse
Public health
ISSN:1054-139X, 1879-1972, 1879-1972
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Zusammenfassung:To determine the effect of a standardized 6-week self-defense program on the incidence of sexual assault in adolescent high school girls in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Population-based survey of 522 high school girls in the Korogocho-Kariobangi locations in Nairobi, Kenya, at baseline and 10 months later. Subjects were assigned by school attended to either a “No Means No Worldwide” self-defense course (eight schools; N = 402) or to a life-skills class (two schools; N = 120). Both the intervention and the life-skills classes were taught in the schools by trained instructors. Participants were administered the same survey at baseline and follow-up. A total of 522 girls (mean age, 16.7 ± 1.5 years; range, 14–21 years) completed surveys at baseline, and 489 at 10-month follow-up. At baseline, 24.5% reported sexual assault in the prior year, with the majority (90%) reporting assault by someone known to them (boyfriend, 52%; relative, 17%; neighbor, 15%; teacher or pastor, 6%). In the self-defense intervention group, the incidence of sexual assault decreased from 24.6% at baseline to 9.2% at follow-up (p < .001), in contrast to the control group, in which the incidence remained unchanged (24.2% at baseline and 23.1% at follow-up; p = .10). Over half the girls in the intervention group reported having used the self-defense skills to avert sexual assault in the year after the training. Rates of disclosure increased in the intervention group, but not in controls. A standardized 6-week self-defense program is effective in reducing the incidence of sexual assault in slum-dwelling high school girls in Nairobi, Kenya.
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ISSN:1054-139X
1879-1972
1879-1972
DOI:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.04.008