Fadime YÜKSEL, Nilüfer KOÇTÜRK, Esra ÇÖP

Comparison of influence on psychosocial factors of single and recurrent sexual abuse in childhood

Aim: Sexual abuse in childhood, which is an important problem in the society, leads to many problems among the victims. This studyaims to present the rate of being subject to recurrent sexual abuse and to find out the psychosocial characteristics of victims ofrecurrent sexual abuse.Materials and Methods: A total of 466 children were referred to the Ankara Child Follow-up Center during the first year. 35 childrenwho had recurrent sexual abuse were compared with 36 first-time sexual abuse victims sociodemographic features, characteristicsof sexual abuse and risk factors of sexual abuse.Results: 35 children who were victims of sexual abuse had been revictimized in the past. Children who had recurrent sexual abusehad statistically significantly higher rates of history of running away, school abstinence, broken family, problems in child-parentand parent-parent interrelations, alcohol use of family members, domestic violence and physical abuse than first-time sexual abusevictims.Conclusion: These findings support the need of immediate treatment both to the victims and their families to prevent recurrent sexualabuse to the child victims of sexual abuse. To achieve this, specialists working with children in various disciplines may collaboratewith their colleagues in a multidisciplinary approach and they may provide proper treatments to the victims and their families toalleviate the risk factors. In hospital and school environments, victims of sexual abuse may be provided with the necessary skills ofself-defense via psycho-education sessions, they may receive psychological support and their risky behaviors might be minimizedwhile their social support mechanisms are being strengthened.

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