Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Department of Social Science, Gender and Education, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Room 01-032, 121 Marianhill Rd, Pinetown, 3605, South Africa.
Syst Rev. 2020 Jun 3;9(1):129. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01362-1.
According to the UK's Office for National Statistics, England and Wales reported a 2.9% increase in sexual aggression cases (3.4 million females and 631,000 males) between 2009 and 2019. In Scotland, sexual aggression cases increased by 66%, with 40% of these sexual violations being perpetrated on individuals under the age of 18 years, while incidents relating to sexual misconduct in Northern Ireland increased by 21.0%, with only 41.2% of those cases being prosecuted. Acts of sexual aggression can have physical, emotional and mental consequences which predispose young people to subsequent short- and long-term mental and social disorders and comorbidities. Such consequences include feelings of guilt, shame, anger, experiencing post-traumatic stress disorders, antisocial behaviour, alcohol and drug misuse and dependency, confusion surrounding sexuality and sexually transmitted illnesses including the human immuno-deficiency virus. However, despite the societal, health, economic and educational implications for young people in the UK and increasing statistics, few studies address this scourge. Hence, the objective is to systematically map evidence of young people's experiences of sexual aggression in the UK and identify literature gaps that could inform future research.
The included literature for this scoping review is published peer-reviewed articles of all research designs; grey literature including governmental reports, policy statements, conference and media reports; and unpublished theses. Electronic searches of databases and search engines such as Embase, Google, Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, CINAHL, PubMed, Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC), PsycInfo, World Health Organization (WHO), media organizations, governmental and education departments and higher learning websites for published literature. Additional searches will include screening citations in reference lists of articles and perusing "Cited by" logs. All retrieved literature will be exported to an Endnote X9.2 library. Duplicate documents will be deleted prior to title screening commencing. An adapted Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT) will be independently used by two reviewers to ensure a rigorous study and quality assessment of all included studies.
This scoping review employs a mixed-method approach to map and select relevant literature and summarize and report on young people's experiences of sexual aggression in the UK. Once the data is summarized, it could inform planning and policy pertaining to a safe and effective sexual health curriculum for all young people, assist with the development of effective strategies to reduce sexual aggression and guide future research.
根据英国国家统计局的数据，2009 年至 2019 年期间，英格兰和威尔士的性侵犯案件（女性 340 万例，男性 63.1 万例）增加了 2.9%。在苏格兰，性侵犯案件增加了 66%，其中 40%的性侵犯案件发生在 18 岁以下的个人身上，而北爱尔兰涉及性行为不端的事件增加了 21.0%，只有 41.2%的案件被起诉。性侵犯行为可能会对年轻人造成身体、情感和精神上的影响，使他们更容易患上随后的短期和长期精神和社会障碍及合并症。这些后果包括内疚、羞耻、愤怒、创伤后应激障碍、反社会行为、滥用酒精和药物以及依赖、对性和性传播疾病（包括人类免疫缺陷病毒）的困惑。然而，尽管英国的年轻人面临着社会、健康、经济和教育方面的影响，以及统计数据的不断增加，但很少有研究关注这一祸害。因此，本研究的目的是系统地绘制英国年轻人遭受性侵犯经历的证据图谱，并确定可能为未来研究提供信息的文献空白。
本研究纳入的文献包括所有研究设计的同行评议文章、灰色文献（包括政府报告、政策声明、会议和媒体报告）和未发表的论文。电子检索数据库和搜索引擎，如 Embase、Google、Google Scholar、EBSCOhost、CINAHL、PubMed、教育资源信息中心（ERIC）、PsycInfo、世界卫生组织（WHO）、媒体组织、政府和教育部门以及高等教育网站，以获取已发表的文献。此外的检索将包括筛选文章参考文献中的引文，并查阅“被引”记录。所有检索到的文献将被导出到 Endnote X9.2 库中。在开始标题筛选之前，将删除重复的文档。两名评审员将独立使用经过改编的混合方法评估工具（MMAT），以确保对所有纳入研究进行严格的研究和质量评估。
本研究采用混合方法来绘制和选择相关文献，并总结和报告英国年轻人遭受性侵犯的经历。一旦数据被总结，它就可以为所有年轻人的安全有效的性健康课程计划提供信息，帮助制定减少性侵犯的有效策略，并指导未来的研究。
