Research Article

Perceived Barriers to Effective Coverage of Health and Social Services for Sexual Violence in Young Adults in Spain

Table 3

Table summarizing the identified topics.

TopicsCategoriesCodes

Factors of the social context that influence effective coverageScarce awareness on sexual violence (1)Confusion between SV and GBV (1)
Normalization of SV (1)
Resistance to talk about sexuality (1)
Nonidentification with stereotypes of victims (1)
Concealment-silence practices (1)
No educational training SV-GBV (1)
Biological sex education (1)
Lack of social acceptance of resources (2)Rejection of feminism and fight against GBV (2)
Lack of trust (2)

Factors that influence affected people (victims, aggressors, and close environment)Different social situation (3)Socioeconomic situation (3)
Age (3)
Migratory status (3)
Disability (3)
Social stigma (4)Feelings of fear, shame, and guilt (4)
Judgement from surroundings towards the victim (4)
Prejudice of the victim towards professionals (4)
Overprotection from family (4)

Factors related to services and their professionalsTraining of professionals (5)Training in gender perspective-sexual violence (5)
Youth training (5)
Improvable institutional care (6)Scarce psychological therapy (6)
Legal processes: hard, ineffective, and not adapted (6)
Legal institutions not specialized in SV (6)
Excessive specialization in psychological recovery accompaniment programmes (6)
Excessive bureaucracy-repeating interviews
Delay in psychosocial care (6)
Medicalization (6)
Service infrastructure (7)Care focused on GBV and middle-aged women (7)
Engagement not focused on SV and young people (7)
Information (resources and bureaucratic procedures): little and not adapted to young people (7)
Lack of resources: human/economic (7)
Lack of protocols (7)
Little awareness of nearby resources (7)
Inequality in territorial distribution (7)

Source: own elaboration. The numbers indicate the correspondence between category and code.