Forensic Psychology Research Unit, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.
Social Epidemiology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 17;19(18):11745. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811745.
Initiatives to safeguard athletes from interpersonal violence (IV) are rapidly growing. In Belgium, knowledge on the magnitude of IV in sport is based on one retrospective prevalence study from 2016 ( = 2.043 adults), involving those who had participated in organized sport for up to 18 years. Data on victimization rates in current youth sport populations are lacking. This study aimed to investigate the magnitude of IV in a sample of 769 athletes (aged between 13 and 21), using the Violence Towards Athletes Questionnaire (VTAQ). All types of IV were prevalent in this sample, ranging from 27% (sexual violence) to 79% (psychological violence and neglect). Boys reported significantly more physical violence, while girls reported significantly more sexual violence. IV perpetrated by peer athletes was reported to the same degree as IV perpetrated by a coach (70%), while IV perpetrated by a parent in the context of sport was somewhat less common, but still prevalent (48%). These findings, including factors associated with elevated exposure rates, can serve as a baseline measurement to monitor and evaluate current and future safeguarding interventions in Belgian sport.
保护运动员免受人际暴力（IV）的倡议正在迅速增加。在比利时，关于体育中 IV 的严重程度的知识基于 2016 年的一项回顾性患病率研究（=2043 名成年人），涉及那些参加有组织运动长达 18 年的人。目前青年体育人群中受害率的数据缺乏。本研究旨在使用运动员暴力问卷（VTAQ）调查 769 名运动员样本中 IV 的严重程度（年龄在 13 至 21 岁之间）。在这个样本中，所有类型的 IV 都很普遍，从 27%（性暴力）到 79%（心理暴力和忽视）。男孩报告的身体暴力明显更多，而女孩报告的性暴力明显更多。同伴运动员实施的 IV 与教练实施的 IV 程度相同（70%），而在体育背景下父母实施的 IV 则相对较少，但仍很普遍（48%）。这些发现，包括与高暴露率相关的因素，可以作为基线测量，用于监测和评估比利时体育界当前和未来的保护干预措施。
