Sexual abuse and associations with psychosocial aspects of health. A population-based study with Swedish adolescents

Priebe, Gisela; Hansson, Kjell; Svedin, Carl Göran

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“…A number of studies used SOC instruments based on Antonovsky's theory, with SOC‐13 used in 17 studies, SOC‐29 in five studies and SOC‐9 used in one. The original SOC‐29 instrument was used in five studies and SOC‐13 was used in its basic form in 12 studies. Two variations of the SOC‐13 for children were used and the Norwegian version was used in three studies .…”

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“…All of the selected 23 studies were quantitative, including 19 cross‐sectional studies . One of the studies was a quasi‐experimental intervention study with an intervention that lasted 15 months , two longitudinal studies measured two time points 9 months apart and two were follow‐up studies with follow‐up periods of 12 months and 3 years .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to instruments, SOC was reported to relate to the demographic variables , clinical data , health behaviour in general , subjective health , physical health , sexual health , stressors and perceived health status . In addition, SOC was related to the variation concerning family‐related questions and parenthood questions .…”

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A systematic review of adolescents’ sense of coherence and health

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Hietasola-Husu

et al. 2017

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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The aim of this systematic review was to describe the association between adolescent sense of coherence (SOC) and health and identify the future direction for research in this area. Systematic searches were conducted (2007-2014) in the PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Cochrane electronic databases and carried out manual searches in three scientific journals. A total of 827 original papers were found and 23 were selected. Based on the results, adolescents' sense of coherence (SOC) was related to health in terms of the adolescents' quality of life, health behaviour, mental health and family relationships by using 31 different health-related instruments. In conclusion, the use of the SOC approach for adolescents can provide a useful view of their health during this transition phase to adulthood. Due to the large variation in the additional instruments used, combining and comparing the results proved challenging. More comparative and longitudinal research is needed to increase understanding of adolescents' health in relation to SOC and develop services that support both elements.

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A systematic review of adolescents’ sense of coherence and health

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“…A strong sense of coherence is expected to be related to successful coping with stressful situations. In previous research, sexual abuse was strongly related to a weak sense of coherence among male and female adolescents, even after adjustment for socio-demographic variables, family structure, and parental bonding [15]. To our knowledge, there is no previous research about sexual-minority youth's sense of coherence.…”

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Online or off-line victimisation and psychological well-being: a comparison of sexual-minority and heterosexual youth

Priebe

Svedin

2012

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Purpose: To compare sexual-minority and heterosexual youths' exposure to sexual abuse offline, problematic sexual meetings offline with person/s met online and online harassment with regard to prevalence, psychological well-being and support-seeking. Methods:A nationally representative sample of 3,432 Swedish high school seniors completed an anonymous school-based survey about sexuality, health, sexual abuse and online-related sexual victimisation or harassment.Results: Sexual-minority adolescents reported a greater rate of sexual abuse, problematic sexual meetings offline with person/s met online and online harassment, compared to heterosexual youth. When compared to nonvictimised heterosexual adolescents, victimised heterosexual adolescents and non-victimised and victimised sexual-minority adolescents reported more psychiatric symptoms, lower self-esteem and a weaker sense of coherence. Same-sex sexual orientation was related to more psychiatric symptoms, lower self-esteem and a weaker sense of coherence even when controlled for victimisation and gender. Compared to victimised heterosexual adolescents, victimised sexual-minority adolescents were more likely to seek support because of sexual abuse (females) or Internet-related problems (males and females). Results for sexual-minority youth were basically the same whether sexual orientation was assessed as sexual identity or as sexual or emotional attraction.Conclusions: Health care providers are challenged to not only provide the same care to sexual-minority youth who seek counselling or psychiatric treatment for mental health problems or problems related to victimisation that all adolescents should receive but also to find ways to address topics like prevention of sexual abuse and risk-taking behaviour online or offline.

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“…Psychological symptoms and abuse in childhood also seem to influence the individual SOC [13,14]. From young adulthood SOC was assumed to have stabilized and show fluctuations of only about ten percent, except when faced with major life changes.…”

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Low Sense of Coherence (SOC) is a mirror of general anxiety and persistent depressive symptoms in adolescent girls - a cross-sectional study of a clinical and a non-clinical cohort

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Serlachius

Larsson

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BackgroundThe Sense of Coherence (SOC) scale is assumed to measure a distinct salutogenic construct separated from measures of anxiety and depression. Our aim was to challenge this concept.MethodsThe SOC-scale, Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI) , the emotional subscale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-em) and self-assessed health-related and physiological parameters were collected from a sample of non-clinical adolescent females (n = 66, mean age 16.5 years with a range of 15.9-17.7 years) and from female psychiatric patients (n = 73), mean age 16.8 years with a range of 14.5-18.4 years), with diagnoses of major depressive disorders (MDD) and anxiety disorders.ResultsThe SOC scores showed high inverse correlations to BDI, BAI and SDQ-em. In the non-clinical sample the correlation coefficient was -0.86 to -0.73 and in the clinical samples -0.74 to -0.53 (p < 0.001). Multiple regression models showed that BDI was the strongest predictor of SOC in the non-clinical (beta coefficient -0.47) and clinical sample (beta coefficient -0.52). The total degree of explanation of self assessed anxiety and depression on the SOC variance estimated by multiple R2 = 0.74, adjusted R2 = 0.73 in the non-clinical sample and multiple R2 = 0.66, adjusted R2 = 0.65 in the clinical sample.Multivariate analyses failed to isolate SOC as a separate construct and the SOC-scale, BDI, BAI and SDQ-em showed similar patterns of correlations to self-reported and physiological health parameters in both samples. The SOC-scale was the most stable measure over six months.ConclusionsThe SOC-scale did not appear to be a measure of a distinct salutogenic construct, but an inverse measure of persistent depressive symptoms and generalized social anxiety similar to the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD), dysthymic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) or generalized social anxiety disorder (SAD) according to DSM-IV. These symptoms were better captured with SOC than by the specialized scales for anxiety and depression. Self-assessment scales that adequately identify MDD, dysthymic disorder, GAD and SAD need to be implemented. Comorbidity of these disorders is common in adolescent females and corresponds to a more severe symptomatology and impaired global function.

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Sexual abuse and associations with psychosocial aspects of health. A population-based study with Swedish adolescents

Abstract: Background: Few population-based Nordic studies with adolescents investigate the

Cited by 13 publications

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A systematic review of adolescents’ sense of coherence and health

A systematic review of adolescents’ sense of coherence and health

Online or off-line victimisation and psychological well-being: a comparison of sexual-minority and heterosexual youth

Low Sense of Coherence (SOC) is a mirror of general anxiety and persistent depressive symptoms in adolescent girls - a cross-sectional study of a clinical and a non-clinical cohort

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