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The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients

BACKGROUND: The aim of this present study was to compare the prevalence and type of trauma experienced by community sample with the outpatient sample with mental disorders. METHODS: A total of 354 outpatients, aged 14–35 years old, with mood disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, ad...

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Autores principales: Devi, Fiona, Shahwan, Shazana, Teh, Wen Lin, Sambasivam, Rajeswari, Zhang, Yun Jue, Lau, Ying Wen, Ong, Say How, Fung, Daniel, Gupta, Bhanu, Chong, Siow Ann, Subramaniam, Mythily
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6694480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31428182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0239-1
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author Devi, Fiona
Shahwan, Shazana
Teh, Wen Lin
Sambasivam, Rajeswari
Zhang, Yun Jue
Lau, Ying Wen
Ong, Say How
Fung, Daniel
Gupta, Bhanu
Chong, Siow Ann
Subramaniam, Mythily
author_facet Devi, Fiona
Shahwan, Shazana
Teh, Wen Lin
Sambasivam, Rajeswari
Zhang, Yun Jue
Lau, Ying Wen
Ong, Say How
Fung, Daniel
Gupta, Bhanu
Chong, Siow Ann
Subramaniam, Mythily
author_sort Devi, Fiona
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this present study was to compare the prevalence and type of trauma experienced by community sample with the outpatient sample with mental disorders. METHODS: A total of 354 outpatients, aged 14–35 years old, with mood disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, adjustment disorder and anxiety disorder were recruited from a tertiary psychiatric hospital. A total of 100 healthy controls were recruited from the Singapore general population by snowballing. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) designed to measure childhood trauma and the severity (e.g., physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect and emotional neglect) was administered to participants. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were obtained from interviews with the participants and from outpatients’ medical records, respectively. Independent sample t tests and Chi-square tests were used to investigate the differences between the outpatient and community samples. RESULTS: Overall the CTQ-SF total and domain scores indicated that outpatient sample experienced higher rate of traumatic life events in childhood than community sample. Two most reported trauma types were emotional abuse (n = 81, 59.1%) and physical neglect (n = 74, 54%) reported by the mood disorder group. In the community sample, emotional neglect (n = 46, 46%) and physical neglect (n = 18, 18%) were the most commonly reported trauma type. Overall outpatient sample (n = 80, 22.6%) and community sample (n = 28, 28%) reported at least one type of trauma. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate higher rates of CTQ-SF total and domain scores in outpatient sample demonstrating a higher rate of traumatic life events in childhood compared to community sample. Further research in childhood trauma is needed to improve the knowledge in psychiatric clinic practices.
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spelling pubmed-66944802019-08-19 The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients Devi, Fiona Shahwan, Shazana Teh, Wen Lin Sambasivam, Rajeswari Zhang, Yun Jue Lau, Ying Wen Ong, Say How Fung, Daniel Gupta, Bhanu Chong, Siow Ann Subramaniam, Mythily Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: The aim of this present study was to compare the prevalence and type of trauma experienced by community sample with the outpatient sample with mental disorders. METHODS: A total of 354 outpatients, aged 14–35 years old, with mood disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, adjustment disorder and anxiety disorder were recruited from a tertiary psychiatric hospital. A total of 100 healthy controls were recruited from the Singapore general population by snowballing. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) designed to measure childhood trauma and the severity (e.g., physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect and emotional neglect) was administered to participants. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were obtained from interviews with the participants and from outpatients’ medical records, respectively. Independent sample t tests and Chi-square tests were used to investigate the differences between the outpatient and community samples. RESULTS: Overall the CTQ-SF total and domain scores indicated that outpatient sample experienced higher rate of traumatic life events in childhood than community sample. Two most reported trauma types were emotional abuse (n = 81, 59.1%) and physical neglect (n = 74, 54%) reported by the mood disorder group. In the community sample, emotional neglect (n = 46, 46%) and physical neglect (n = 18, 18%) were the most commonly reported trauma type. Overall outpatient sample (n = 80, 22.6%) and community sample (n = 28, 28%) reported at least one type of trauma. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate higher rates of CTQ-SF total and domain scores in outpatient sample demonstrating a higher rate of traumatic life events in childhood compared to community sample. Further research in childhood trauma is needed to improve the knowledge in psychiatric clinic practices. BioMed Central 2019-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6694480/ /pubmed/31428182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0239-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Devi, Fiona
Shahwan, Shazana
Teh, Wen Lin
Sambasivam, Rajeswari
Zhang, Yun Jue
Lau, Ying Wen
Ong, Say How
Fung, Daniel
Gupta, Bhanu
Chong, Siow Ann
Subramaniam, Mythily
The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients
title The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients
title_full The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients
title_fullStr The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients
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title_short The prevalence of childhood trauma in psychiatric outpatients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6694480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31428182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0239-1
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