Sentences with phrase «victims of childhood abuse reported»

Ten percent of adults who were victims of childhood abuse reported mental or psychological limitations and were more likely to report poor physical health.3

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In one sample of South African rural youth, the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse was shown to be very high with 94.4 % of men exposed to physical abuse and 39.1 % of women to sexual abuse.46 More than a quarter of the adults who were interviewed endorsed exposure to childhood adversity (parental death, parental separation or parental divorce) in the SASH study.47 Significantly more women were prone to be victims of domestic violence than men.47 Women also reported twice as many suicidal attempts as the male participants in the SASH study.9

Sixty - five percent of victims of childhood physical and / or sexual abuse reported having been abused 1 to 6 times.