Sexual coercion and abuse among women with a severe mental illness in India: an exploratory investigation

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Prabha S ChandraTinku Thomas

Abstract

Research from the west indicates that women living with a psychiatric disorder are particularly vulnerable to sexual coercion and abuse. However, there have been no published reports of sexual abuse among female psychiatric patients in India. This exploratory study sought (1) to determine the prevalence of sexual coercion in a representative sample of female psychiatric patients in India; (2) to identify clinical and sociodemographic correlates of sexual coercion; (3) to clarify the association between sexual coercion and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related risk behavior; and (4) to determine whether self-report of sexual coercion from these patients was recorded in their medical charts. Consecutive female inpatient admissions (N = 146) to a large psychiatric hospital in southern India were assessed using a structured interview and standardized measures. During these structured clinical interviews, sexual coercion was reported by 30% of the 146 women. The most commonly reported experience was sexual intercourse involving threatened or actual physical force (reported by 14% of women), and the most commonly identified perpetrator was the woman's husband or intimate partner (15%), or a person in a position of authority in t...Continue Reading

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