Domestic sexual and other violence

Domestic sexual and other violence is listed in the payload as a SINAN surveillance concept for domestic sexual and other violence, indicating a monitoring category rather than an etiologic disease in the conventional infectious-disease sense ^[1][4]. The retrieved sources mainly provide bibliographic references to scholarly works on sexual assault and domestic violence, including textbook chapters and journal metadata, without additional definitional detail beyond the concept name itself ^[1][2][3][4]. Source-backed detail on case definitions, inclusion criteria, or related classification rules is not yet available ^[1][2][3][4].

The source snippets do not describe symptomatology, injury patterns, psychological sequelae, or complication profiles for this category, so a source-backed clinical presentation cannot be summarized here ^[1][2][3][4]. The available material only confirms that the topic is addressed in scholarly works on sexual assault and domestic violence, not the clinical spectrum of affected individuals ^[1][2][3]. Because no parsed page text or abstract content is provided, source-backed detail on severity, course, or complications is not yet available ^[1][2][3][4].

The provided sources do not supply geographic distribution, incidence, outbreak context, or surveillance burden for domestic sexual and other violence ^[1][2][3][4]. What can be stated from the record is only that the topic appears in obstetrics and gynecology and legal scholarship metadata from 2012, 2022, and 2023, suggesting ongoing academic and public-health attention ^[1][2][4]. No source-backed information is available on reservoirs, seasonal patterns, population rates, or high-prevalence settings ^[1][2][3][4].

No transmission route is described in the source material, and the available snippets do not support a biological mode of spread ^[1][2][3][4]. For this surveillance concept, the evidence provided does not specify exposure mechanisms, persistence, or person-to-person transmission dynamics ^[1][2][3][4]. Source-backed detail on mechanisms of occurrence is not yet available ^[1][2][3][4].

The supplied sources do not identify risk groups, and no source-backed detail is available on age, sex, setting, relationship context, or other vulnerability patterns ^[1][2][3][4].

The source snippets do not provide prevention guidance, exposure-control measures, or intervention strategies for this category ^[1][2][3][4]. The record only indicates that the topic has been treated in clinical and legal scholarship, but no prevention content is included in the extracted text ^[1][2][3][4]. Source-backed detail on prevention is not yet available ^[1][2][3][4].

In surveillance use, this should be read as a reporting category for domestic sexual and other violence rather than a pathogen-specific condition ^[1][4]. The current evidence base in the payload is limited to metadata for related scholarly publications, so analysts should not infer clinical severity, route of occurrence, or epidemiologic pattern beyond the concept label itself ^[1][2][3][4]. Additional source text would be needed to define how cases are counted or interpreted in routine monitoring ^[1][2][3][4].

1. 1 Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America. 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.ogc.2022.02.020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ogc.2022.02.020
2. 2 Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2012. doi: 10.1002/9781119979449.ch60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119979449.ch60
3. 3 Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. None. doi: 10.1002/9780470753354.ch61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470753354.ch61
4. 4 Combating domestic sexual violence. Прикарпатський юридичний вісник. 2023. doi: 10.32782/pyuv.v4.2023.1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/pyuv.v4.2023.1

ICD-10

ICD-11

Total cases

4.0M

Peak month

2025-09

Coverage

1 reporting countries · 2009-01-01 → 2025-12-01