Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 7 , Pages 502-505, July 2009

Sexual victimization as a risk factor for residential mobility: A case–control study using the Danish registry system

  • A. Elklit

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • M. Shevlin

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Research Institute, University of Ulster at Magee, Northern Ireland

Received 25 November 2008; received in revised form 18 May 2009; accepted 9 June 2009. published online 13 July 2009.

Summary 

Objectives

Increased residential mobility has been proposed as an undesirable consequence for the victims of sexual victimization. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that serious sexual victimization predicted high levels of residential mobility after controlling for previous levels of residential mobility.

Study design

A case–control design was used. Data were from the Danish civil registry system.

Methods

All females who had visited a centre for rape victims over a 1-year period were identified, and demographic information was collected based on the Danish civil registry number. A control group of 20 women for each rape victim with the same age and living in the same municipality in the year of the rape was also used.

Results

The results indicate that attendance at the centre for rape victims, higher previous levels of residential mobility and being single significantly increase the likelihood of subsequent high residential mobility.

Conclusions

Sexual victimization has a unique and significant role in predicting residential mobility, above and beyond the influence of previous residential mobility.

Keywords: Sexual victimization, Residential mobility, Case–control

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00162-0

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.005

Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 7 , Pages 502-505, July 2009

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