Knowledge, Perceptions, and Experiences of Peer-to-Peer Sexual Abuse Among Medical Students in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study of knowledge, perceptions and experiences of peer-to-peer sexual abuse among medical students in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
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- Researcher
- Quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study
- Completed — unpublished
Context
Peer-to-peer sexual abuse within medical training environments is under-researched, and the conditions that make it hard to study are the same conditions that let it persist: close-knit cohorts, long shared training years, steep informal hierarchies, and strong disincentives to report.
Before an institution can respond to a problem, it needs to know its shape. That requires measurement, and that is what this research aimed to address.
The question
What do medical students in Abakaliki know about peer-to-peer sexual abuse, how do they perceive it, and what have they experienced?
Separating knowledge, perception and experience matters. A population can be well-informed and still normalise the behaviour, or recognise it clearly and still have no viable route to report it. Those are different problems requiring different responses.
Method
A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Findings
The study is complete but unpublished.