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Sexual abuse

Known as: Sexual Abuses, Abuses, Sexual, sex abuse 
The forcing of unwanted sexual activity by one person on another
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

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14 relations

Broader (4)

Antisocial behaviorSex OffensesSexual assaultViolence

Narrower (2)

Child Sexual AbuseIncest (event)
Domestic ViolenceElder AbusePartner AbusePedophilia

Papers overview

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Early trauma and lifetime suicidal behavior in a nationwide sample of Korean medical students.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The relationship between within-interview contradictions and eliciting interviewer utterances.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Directed forgetting of trauma cues in adults reporting repressed or recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.
An item-cuing directed forgetting task was used to investigate whether women reporting repressed (n = 13) or recovered (n = 13… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Physical and sexual abuse in women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus: increased illness and health care utilization.
BACKGROUND A history of physical or sexual abuse is associated with increased health care utilization and possibly an increase in… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Sexual abuse and alcoholism in a female population.
AIMS (1) To study the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse before the age of 18 years (CSA) and life-time sexual abuse (LSA) in a… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Sexual abuse prevention for persons with mental retardation.
The problem of sexual abuse among persons with mental retardation, skills for preventing sexual abuse, and methods for assessing… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Sexually abused children 5 years after presentation: a case-control study.
OBJECTIVE A total of 68 sexually abused children and their nonoffending parents were reassessed 5 years after presentation and… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Long‐term effects of intrafamilial sexual abuse in childhood
This study reports results from follow‐up interviews with 301 women aged 18–44 years who were first identified 2 years earlier in… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Childhood sexual abuse in women with bulimia.
In a study of the family environments and psychiatric histories of 35 bulimic women, the authors found that 12 (34.3%) of the 35… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Criteria for judging the credibility of children's statements about their sexual abuse.
One hundred and three cases of child sexual maltreatment, where offenders confessed to some level of their abuse, were examined… 
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