1 PREVALENCE AND NATURE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN OLDER ADULTS IN EUROPE: A CRITICAL I NTERPRETIVE SYNTHESIS OF EVIDENCE Anne Nobels 1 , Christophe Vandeviver 2,3 , Marie Beaulieu 4 , Adina Cismaru Inescu 5 , Laurent Nisen 5 , Nele Van Den Noortgate 6 , Tom Vander Beken 2 , Gilbert Lemmens 7 and Ines Keygnaert 1 1 International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 2 Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 3 Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium. 4 School of Social Work and Research Centre on Aging, University of Sherbooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. 5 ESPRIst, Études et évaluations, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. 6 Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. 7 Department of Psychiatry, Ghent University Hosptial, Ghent, Belgium. Direct correspondence to: Anne Nobels, International Centre for Reproductive Health- Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10 entrance 75- ICRH, 9000 Gent, Belgium Email: anne.nobels@ugent.be Declaration of interest: None. . CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted April 29, 2020. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.24.20077990 doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.