Disability and Risk of Recent Sexual Violence in the United States
OBJECTIVES:
To
examine the relative prevalence of recent (past 12 months) penetrative and
nonpenetrative sexual violence comparing men and women with and without a
disability.
METHODS:
Data are
from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, a national
telephone survey of US adults, and includes an expansive measure of sexual
violence victimization. A total of 9086 women and 7421 men completed the
telephone survey in 2010.
RESULTS:
Compared
with persons without a disability, persons with a disability were at increased
risk for recent rape for women (adjusted odds ratio = 3.3; 95% confidence
interval = 1.6, 6.7), and being made to penetrate a perpetrator for men
(adjusted odds ratio = 4.2; 95% confidence interval = 1.6, 10.8). An estimated
39% of women raped in the 12 months preceding the survey had a disability at
the time of the rape. For women and men, having a disability was associated
with an increased risk of sexual coercion and noncontact unwanted sexual
experiences.
CONCLUSIONS:
In
this nationally representative sample, men and women with a disability were at
increased risk for recent sexual violence, compared to those without a
disability.
- 1Kathleen C. Basile and Sharon G. Smith are with the Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Matthew J. Breiding is with the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Am J Public Health. 2016 Feb 18:e1-e6
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