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Finding: “In the 21 countries participating in Disrupting Harm, children subjected to technologyfacilitated sexual exploitation and abuse were:
• 4 times more likely to experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours;
• 4 times more likely to engage in self-harm tendencies;
• And reported anxiety levels were approximately 11 percentage points higher.”
Table Overview: Tables A20 and A21 present results from survey-weighted regression analyses
examining the association between technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse and
selected well-being indicators using data from both rounds of the Disrupting Harm study. Models
were adjusted for child age and gender.
Table A20 presents adjusted risk ratios for binary outcomes, including suicidal thoughts and
behaviours and self-harm, while Table A21 presents adjusted mean differences in standardized
anxiety scores.
Overall, children subjected to technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse had a higher
prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and self-harm compared with children who did not
report being subjected to these forms of violence (Table A20). They also had higher anxiety scores
on average (Table A21).
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