Sexual abuse self-protection skills among middle school students in rural area of Hubei Province

Objective To evaluate sexual abuse self-protection skills among middle school students in rural of Hubei province.Methods All the 1 658 students were recruited from 1 senior high schools and 2 junior high schools through random cluster sampling and were investigated with a questionnaire survey.Logistic regression was used to analyze.Results Boys showed lower sexual abuse self-protection skills,with 5 out of the 7 skills were of statistically significance.Risk factor for sufficient knowledge on sexual abuse self-protection (higher than 12) included being boy (OR =1.509;95% CI:1.230-1.852) and low intimacy (OR =1.259;95%CI:1.138-1.393),while protective factors included non-left-behind (OR =0.774;95% CI:0.627-0.956),non-boarding (OR =0.558;95%CI:0.455-0.686),younger than 12 years old (OR =0.363;95%CI:0.268-0.493) and 13-16 years old (OR =0.160;95%CI:0.101-0.254).Conclusion Secondary school students in rural area are lack of basic skills of sexual abuse self-protection skills.Sexual abuse prevention education programs should be developed and implemented among rural students in the near future.