Table 1 Characteristics of participants ages 15+ reporting having ever experienced sexual violence across hospital, Violence Against Children, and Kenya Demographic and Health surveys
| Â | Â | Hospital Respondents | 2010 VACS Respondents | 2014 KDHS Respondents | p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totala | Â | 353 (100%) | 611 (29.0%) | 1069 (10.1%) | Â |
Sex | Male | 15 (4.3%) | 240 (39.3%) | 301 (28.2%) | < 0.001 |
Female | 338 (95.8%) | 371 (60.7%) | 768 (71.8%) | ||
Age (n = 297 hospital respondents) | 15–19 | 169 (56.9%) | 272 (44.5%) | 69 (6.5%) | < 0.001* |
20–24 | 49 (16.5%) | 339 (55.5%) | 163 (15.3%) | ||
25–29 | 39 (13.1%) | // | 250 (23.4%) | ||
30–34 | 20 (6.7%) | // | 194 (18.2%) | ||
35–39 | 6 (2.1%) | // | 172 (16.1%) | ||
40–44 | 6 (2.1%) | // | 122 (11.4%) | ||
45–49 | 3 (1.0%) | // | 81 (7.6%) | ||
50+ | 5 (1.7%) | // | 18 (1.7%) | ||
Marital status(n = 338 hospital respondents; n = 610 VACS respondents) | Currently married/cohabitating | 32 (9.5%) | 184 (30.2%) | 753 (70.4%) | < 0.001 |
Previously married/ cohabitating | 22 (6.5%) | 34 (5.6%) | 197 (18.4%) | ||
Single | 284 (84.0%) | 392 (64.3%) | 119 (11.1%) | ||
Perpetrator known? (n = 349 hospital respondents) | Yes | 119 (34.1%) | 282 (46.2%) | // | < 0.001** |
No | 230 (65.9%) | 329 (53.9%) | // | ||
Relationship of perpetrator to survivor (n = 291 hospital respondents; n = 289 VACS respondents) | Current/previous partnerb | 54 (18.6%) | 147 (50.9%) | 589 (55.1%) | < 0.001 |
Other | 237 (81.4%) | 142 (49.1%) | 480 (44.9%) | ||
Place where violence occurred n = 257 hospital respondents; n = 366 VACS respondents) | Own home | 41 (16.0%) | 68 (18.6%) | // | < 0.001** |
Perpetrator’s home | 110 (42.8%) | 54 (14.8%) | // | ||
Someone else’s home | 12 (4.7%) | 20 (5.5%) | // | ||
Traveling by foot/roadside/bush | 65 (25.3%) | 70 (19.1%) | // | ||
School | 1 (0.4%) | 77 (21.0%) | // | ||
Other | 28 (10.9%) | 77 (21.1%) | // |