Table 3. Characteristics of quantitative and mixed-method studies included in the review with school/college, clinical, and community sample.
| Author | Period of prevalence | Study design | Setting | Method of data collection | Instruments/ Tools used to measure CSA |
Sample size and sampling strategy | Age (in years) |
Type of sexual abuse | Prevalence | Perpetration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-contact | Contact | Forced intercourse | ||||||||||
| Deb et al. (2012)2 [48] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Schools | Administered structured interview | ISPCAN** Child Abuse Screening Tool Children’s Version (ICAST-C) |
160 girls 160 boys Multi-stage random sampling |
14–19 | X | X | X | 18% (25%girls; 11%boys) | Not reported |
| Deb et al. (2010)2 [50] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Schools | Administered structured interview | ISPCAN** Child Abuse Screening Tool Children’s Version (ICAST-C) |
160 girls 160 boys Multi-stage random sampling |
14–19 | X | X | X | 18% (25%girls; 11%boys) | Not reported |
| Jaisoorya et al. (2015) [67] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Schools | Administered structured questionnaire | 4 questions on experience of sexual abuse | 3640 girls 3740 boys Stratified random sampling |
12–18 | X | X | X | 4–9%- Non-OCD adolescents 24–41%- OCD adolescents |
Not included |
| Krishnakumar et al. (2014) [32] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Schools | Self-administered questionnaire | Adapted MoWCD*** questionnaire on child abuse |
926 girls 688 boys Stratified random sampling |
15–19 | X | X | X | 35% (35%girls; 36%boys) | Not included |
| Bhilwar et al. (2015) [46] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Schools | Self-administered questionnaire | Adapted MoWCD*** questionnaire on child abuse |
520 girls 416 boys Stratified random sampling |
18–25 | X | X | X | 3.0%-14% (3–18%girls; 1–27% boys) | Not included |
| Jaya et al. (2007) [49] |
Childhood | Cross-sectional | Community | Face-to-face interviews, audio computer assisted self-interviews, and interactive interviews | Not stated | 474 Girls 583 Boys Simple random sampling |
15–17 | X | X | 4.0–41% girls; 12–27% boys |
Included | |
* Mixed Methods Study
**International Society for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Neglect Tool-Retrospective (ISPCAN)
*** Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD)
1 Studies based on same data set but reporting different covariates and outcomes of CSA
2 Studies based on same data set but reporting different outcomes associated with CSA
# Data based on an Intervention Study
## Data based on the same Intervention Study. The study was conducted with respondents between 16–24 years of age, but the analysis was restricted to respondents between 16–18 years of age for the purpose of this review