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Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disoder among sexually abused children of the child sexual abuse centre at university teaching hospital, Zambia/ Akani A Maria.
By: Akani A Maria.
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BookPublisher: Lusaka, the university of Zambia, school of medicine 2016Description: xiii,66p.: ill.Subject(s): Sexually abused children | Child sexual abuseDissertation note: A thesis submitted to the university of Zambia in partial fulfilment of the requirement of masters degree of medicine and psychiatry. Summary: Child sexual abuse is a problem in many countries in the world including Zambia with various studies pegging the prevalence at 3 to 17% for boys and 8 to 31% for girls. The effects of Child Sexual Abuse are both physical(genital trauma, contraction of infections, pregnancy...etc) and psychosocial(emotional dysregulation, poor self esteem, depression..etc).However, physical effects which heal without any further sequel are often given more attention than psychosocial effects which may last uo to several years.
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A thesis submitted to the university of Zambia in partial fulfilment of the requirement of masters degree of medicine and psychiatry.
Includes bibliographic references.
Child sexual abuse is a problem in many countries in the world including Zambia with various studies pegging the prevalence at 3 to 17% for boys and 8 to 31% for girls. The effects of Child Sexual Abuse are both physical(genital trauma, contraction of infections, pregnancy...etc) and psychosocial(emotional dysregulation, poor self esteem, depression..etc).However, physical effects which heal without any further sequel are often given more attention than psychosocial effects which may last uo to several years.
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