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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Published in:	Journal of adolescent health Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 374 - 380
Main Authors:	Sinclair, Jake, Sinclair, Lee, Otieno, Evans, Mulinge, Munyae, Kapphahn, Cynthia, Golden, Neville H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.09.2013 Elsevier
Subjects:	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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