Serious Violence Victimization and Perpetration among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda

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This article is published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health and is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons BY-NC License.

Violence among youth is a major public health issue globally. Despite these concerns, youth violence surveillance and prevention research are either scarce or non-existent, particularly in developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study is to quantitatively determine the prevalence of violence involving weapons in a convenience sample of service-seeking youth in Kampala. Moreover, the study will seek to determine the overlap between violence victimization and perpetration among these youth and the potentially shared risk factors for these experiences.