Reported stigma and mental health outcomes among women raising children born from SVRPs
| Depression | PTSD | Anxiety | Suicidality* | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Yes | No | p Value | Yes | No | p Value | Yes | No | p Value | Yes | No | p Value |
| The community stigmatises me† | 0.002 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||||
| Yes | 133 (56.8%) | 101 (43.2%) | 169 (71.9%) | 66 (28.1%) | 142 (60.5%) | 93 (39.5%) | 110 (47.1%) | 124 (52.9%) | ||||
| No | 165 (43.9%) | 211 (56.1%) | 195 (52.0%) | 180 (48.0%) | 134 (35.8%) | 241 (64.3%) | 96 (25.7%) | 279 (74.3%) | ||||
| Stigma toward child from spouse, family, or community | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||||
| Yes | 216 (55.9%) | 170 (44.1%) | 269 (70.0%) | 117 (30.4%) | 206 (53.4%) | 180 (46.6%) | 161 (41.7%) | 225 (58.3%) | ||||
| No | 157 (41.3%) | 223 (58.7%) | 174 (45.9%) | 205 (54.1%) | 125 (33.0%) | 254 (67.0%) | 99 (26.2%) | 280 (73.8%) | ||||
| Stigma toward child from spouse‡ | <0.0001 | 0.0002 | 0.002 | 0.01 | ||||||||
| Yes | 78 (54.7%) | 64 (45.3%) | 96 (67.9%) | 46 (32.1%) | 73 (51.5%) | 69 (48.5%) | 52 (37.0%) | 89 (63.0%) | ||||
| No | 56 (29.8%) | 133 (70.2%) | 90 (47.7%) | 99 (52.3%) | 65 (34.2%) | 124 (65.8%) | 45 (23.9%) | 144 (76.1%) | ||||
| Stigma toward child from family§ | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||||
| Yes | 141 (59.3%) | 97 (40.7%) | 171 (72.1%) | 66 (27.9%) | 138 (57.9%) | 100 (42.1%) | 111 (46.6%) | 127 (53.5%) | ||||
| No | 219 (43.0%) | 291 (57.0%) | 261 (51.1%) | 250 (48.9%) | 185 (36.4%) | 325 (63.7%) | 141 (27.6%) | 369 (72.4%) | ||||
| Stigma toward child from community† | 0.02 | <0.0001 | 0.0004 | 0.003 | ||||||||
| Yes | 128 (55.1%) | 104 (44.9%) | 168 (72.2%) | 65 (27.8%) | 129 (55.3%) | 104 (44.7%) | 97 (41.7%) | 136 (58.3%) | ||||
| No | 171 (45.3%) | 206 (54.7%) | 196 (52.1%) | 181 (47.9%) | 153 (40.6%) | 224 (59.4%) | 112 (29.7%) | 265 (70.3%) | ||||
*Suicidality includes women who reported suicide ideation or suicide attempt.
†Those who reported that the community was not aware of the sexual violence were excluded from the analysis.
‡Those who did not report a spouse or who reported their spouse did not know of the sexual violence were excluded from the analysis.
§Those who reported their family was not aware of the sexual violence were excluded from this analysis.
SVRP, sexual violence-related pregnancy.