Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Suicide Attempts Among Urban Teenagers

Olshen, Elyse; McVeigh, Katharine H.; Wunsch-Hitzig, Robin A.; Rickert, Vaughn I.

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“…Seksuelle overgrep kan føre til en rekke negative ettervirkninger i form av psykiske og somatiske problemer (2)(3)(4)(5).…”

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“…Seksuelle overgrep er assosiert med en rekke helseproblemer, deriblant smerte, angst, depresjon, svimmelhet, hjertebank, søvnløshet, trøtthet og energiløshet, forstoppelse og diaré (3,4). En stor, retrospektiv kohortstudie viste at seksuelle overgrep i barneog ungdomsårene var assosiert med alkoholproblemer, bruk av illegale narkotiske stoffer, selvmordsforsøk og ekteskaps-og familieproblemer i voksen alder hos både kvinner og menn (7).…”

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“…Seksuelle overgrep kan føre til en rekke negative ettervirkninger i form av psykiske og somatiske problemer (2)(3)(4)(5).…”

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“…89 A recent large study of New York City students found that nearly 10% of girls and more than 5% of boys reported a lifetime history of being sexually assaulted, and 10% of both boys and girls reported experiencing dating violence in the previous year. 90 Although exposure to media violence is not the sole factor contributing to aggression, antisocial attitudes, and violence among children and adolescents, it is an important health risk factor on which we, as pediatricians and members of a compassionate society, can intervene. Some research has suggested that interventions of the types discussed below can reduce mediaviolence consumption and its effects on children and adolescents.…”

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Mulligan²,

Altmann³

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Exposure to violence in media, including television, movies, music, and video games, represents a significant risk to the health of children and adolescents. Extensive research evidence indicates that media violence can contribute to aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, nightmares, and fear of being harmed. Pediatricians should assess their patients' level of media exposure and intervene on mediarelated health risks. Pediatricians and other child health care providers can advocate for a safer media environment for children by encouraging media literacy, more thoughtful and proactive use of media by children and their parents, more responsible portrayal of violence by media producers, and more useful and effective media ratings. Office counseling has been shown to be effective. Pediatrics 2009;124: 1495-1503 INTRODUCTIONAlthough shootings in schools around the world periodically prompt politicians and the general public to focus their attention on the influence of media violence, the medical community has been concerned with this issue since the 1950s. 1-3 The evidence is now clear and convincing: media violence is 1 of the causal factors of real-life violence and aggression. Therefore, pediatricians and parents need to take action. 4 In 1972, the US Surgeon General issued a special report on the public health effects of media violence that was based on a growing and nearly unanimous body of evidence. 5 Ten years later, the National Institute of Mental Health issued a comprehensive review of the research on media violence and its effects, which outlined concerns about children's psychological health. 6 At a Congressional public health summit in July 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was joined by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Psychological Association in issuing an unprecedented joint statement on the impact of entertainment violence on children. 7 Also in 2000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report on shootings in schools that stated that media violence is a risk factor. 8 In 2003, a panel of media-violence experts convened by the National Institute of Mental Health, at the request of the US Surgeon General, published its comprehensive report on the effects of media violence on youth, which revealed media violence to be a significant causal factor in aggression and violence. 9 Most recently, in 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its report on violent television programming and its effects on children and agreed with the Surgeon General that there is "strong evidence" that exposure to media violence can increase aggressive behavior in

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“…Dating violence is another risk factor of suicide attempts. Those who had been hit by a girlfriend or boyfriend were twice as likely to report attempted suicide (Epstein & Spirito, 2009;Olshen, McVeigh, Wunsch-Hitzig, & Rickert, 2007).…”

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To What Extent can Adolescent Suicide Attempts be Attributed to Violence Exposure? A Population-Based Study from Western Canada

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Chen

2013

Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in Canada and globally. The purpose of our study was to calculate what proportion of adolescent suicide attempts could be prevented in the absence of verbal, physical and sexual violence. Using the province-wide 2008 British Columbia Adolescent Health Survey (N=29,315) we calculated population-attributable fractions for each type of violence, as well as exposure to any violence, separately by gender, among adolescents age 12-19. We found violence victimization is implicated in the majority of suicide attempts. Focusing on violence prevention may be an important strategy for reducing suicide among young people.Violence victimization in adolescents has been identified as a significant public health problem (Mrug, Loosier, & Windle, 2008; Ruchkin, Henrich, Jones, Vermeiren, & SchwabStone, 2007), not only because adolescents experience higher rates of violence victimization than do other age groups in the general population, but more importantly, such experience significantly contributes to physical injury and death, as well as psychological maladjustment and mental health problems for adolescents (Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, & Hamby, 2009;Ruchkin et al., 2007). Considerable evidence exists suggesting that any type of violence, whether verbal teasing, being threatened with weapons, sexual harassment or sexual exploitation, and physical assault by a family member, an intimate partner, or peers at school, all can have negative effects on young people's emotional, behavioral, and developmental well-being (Buka, Stichick, Birdthistle, & Earls, 2001;Hebert, Lavoie, Vitaro, McDuff, & Tremblay, 2008;Swahn et al, 2008).In spite of the strong relationship demonstrated between violence exposure and youth health and well-being, violence has rarely been identified as a key social determinant of health for adolescents or indeed, any age group. According to the World Health Organization's definition, social determinants of health "are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age" (WHO, 2011). These circumstances shape people's health and are mostly responsible for the existence of health inequities (Raphael, 2010). As Mikkonen and Raphael (2010) argue, "the primary factors that shape the health of Canadians are not medical treatment or lifestyles choices but rather the living conditions they experience" (p7). CIHR Author Manuscript CIHR Author Manuscript CIHR Author ManuscriptThis is particularly true for adolescents, because they less frequently suffer from acute or chronic diseases, compared to other age groups. Instead, their health, including their mental health, is largely determined by the living conditions they experience, and the nature of their relationships with the people in these environments.After road traffic accidents, suicide is the next most common cause of death among adolescents, both in Canada and throughout the world (Patton et al., 2009; Public Health Agency of Canada, 2011). Among the various risk factors for suicid...

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Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Suicide Attempts Among Urban Teenagers

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Uønskede seksuelle erfaringer og helseplager blant ungdom

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