Accession Number:
ADA345471
Title:
Sexual Victimization and the Military Environment: Contributing Factors, Vocational, Psychological, and Medical Sequelae
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 15 Sep 95-14 Sep 97
Corporate Author:
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER IOWA CITY IA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1997-10-01
Pagination or Media Count:
355.0
Abstract:
The goal of this study was to determine military environmental factors associated with violence towards service women. A national sample of 558 women veterans completed a computer-assisted telephone interview assessing their experiences with in-military sexual harassment, unwanted sexual touching, physical assault and rape. Pre-military physical and sexual victimization events and demographic factors were additionally considered as risk factors for in-military violence. Vocational, health status, and psychological differences including findings of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, alcohol dependence, and panic disorder between victimized and non- victimized women were also described.
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Subject Categories:
- Psychology
- Stress Physiology