Obstetric Outcomes of Mothers Previously Exposed to Sexual Violence.

Background: There is a scarcity of data on the association of sexual violence and women's subsequent obstetric outcomes. Our aim was to investigate whether women exposed to sexual violence as teenagers (12-19 years of age) or adults present with different obstetric outcomes than women with no record of such violence.

Methods: We linked detailed prospectively collected information on women attending a Rape Trauma Service (RTS) to the Icelandic Medical Birth Registry (IBR).

Risk factors and health during pregnancy among women previously exposed to sexual violence.

Objective: To determine whether women exposed to sexual violence in adolescence or adulthood are at increased risk of adverse maternal characteristics during subsequent pregnancies.

Design: Register-based cohort study.

Setting: Iceland.

Increased attendance rates and altered characteristics of sexual violence.

Objective: To study the attendance rates and characteristics of sexual violence presented at emergency services for rape victims, over a 10-year period.

Design: Incidence study.

Setting: Rape Trauma Service, within an emergency department at a tertiary referral university hospital.