Women’s experiences of safety apps for sexualized violence: a narrative scoping review

BACKGROUND: Sexualized violence against women is a significant human rights problem worldwide. Safety apps have the capacity to provide women with resources to prevent or respond to experiences of sexualized violence. METHODS: The aim of the following study was to review the scope of the literature...

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Autores principales: Doria, Nicole, Ausman, Christine, Wilson, Susan, Consalvo, Annalisa, Sinno, Jad, Boulos, Leah, Numer, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34969403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12292-5
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author Doria, Nicole
Ausman, Christine
Wilson, Susan
Consalvo, Annalisa
Sinno, Jad
Boulos, Leah
Numer, Matthew
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description BACKGROUND: Sexualized violence against women is a significant human rights problem worldwide. Safety apps have the capacity to provide women with resources to prevent or respond to experiences of sexualized violence. METHODS: The aim of the following study was to review the scope of the literature on women’s experiences of safety apps related to sexualized violence. The databases Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus were systematically searched, and seven studies were included in this review. RESULTS: Thematic analysis identified the following themes in the literature: (1) security; (2) accessibility; and (3) knowledge. CONCLUSION: The gaps in the literature are identified and implications and recommendations for future research is discussed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12292-5.
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spelling pubmed-87193902022-01-05 Women’s experiences of safety apps for sexualized violence: a narrative scoping review Doria, Nicole Ausman, Christine Wilson, Susan Consalvo, Annalisa Sinno, Jad Boulos, Leah Numer, Matthew BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Sexualized violence against women is a significant human rights problem worldwide. Safety apps have the capacity to provide women with resources to prevent or respond to experiences of sexualized violence. METHODS: The aim of the following study was to review the scope of the literature on women’s experiences of safety apps related to sexualized violence. The databases Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus were systematically searched, and seven studies were included in this review. RESULTS: Thematic analysis identified the following themes in the literature: (1) security; (2) accessibility; and (3) knowledge. CONCLUSION: The gaps in the literature are identified and implications and recommendations for future research is discussed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12292-5. BioMed Central 2021-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8719390/ /pubmed/34969403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12292-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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