Actions to prevent sexual violence against adolescents: an integrative literature review

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 2021, Vol.74 (suppl 4), p.e20190876-7
• Main Authors: Rivera, Alejandra Isabel Vargas, Mondragón-Sánchez, Edna Johana, Vasconcelos, Fatima Karine Apolonio, Pinheiro, Patricia Neyva da Costa, Ferreira, Adriana Gomes Nogueira, Galvão, Marli Teresinha Gimeniz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child development; Child sexual abuse; Data collection; Disease prevention; Evidence-based nursing; Families & family life; Health Education; Legal medicine; Literature reviews; Medical research; NURSING; Primary Prevention; Rape; Sex crimes; Sex Offenses; Society; Teenagers; Violence; Womens health
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0876

to identify actions to prevent adolescent sexual violence. an integrative literature review of five databases, Medline/Pubmed, Scopus, Lilacs, Bdenf, Cinahl using the following descriptors "adolescent" "adolescence" "youth" "primary prevention" "prevention" "primary" "sexual violence", plus the Boolean operators AND and OR, with a final sample of 24 articles; the evidence was assessed by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation. the review identifies different structures of the study object, classified in the categories "Interventions with programs created by authors" and "Interventions with standard programs". there are actions to prevent sexual violence against adolescents; the participants' knowledge was assessed immediately after the intervention, but the assessment of the participants' acquisition of habits and behavioral changes was to a lesser extent; health prevention is crucial for society's healthy development, which demonstrates that its applicability in the environment directly favors human health.