Child Maltreatment, Adult Trauma, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Women Veterans: A Scoping Review of Published Quantitative Research.
| Autor: | Presseau C; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, USA.; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Carney JR; University of Notre Dame, IN, USA., Kline NK; Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA., Grimshaw AA; Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., DeMoss L; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, USA., Gunderson C; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, USA.; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Portnoy GA; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, USA.; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Trauma, violence & abuse [Trauma Violence Abuse] 2024 Oct; Vol. 25 (4), pp. 3020-3036. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 11. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/15248380241234345 |
| Abstrakt: | The objective of this scoping review was to describe and synthesize the measures, methods, and key findings of published quantitative research examining the influence of child maltreatment (i.e., abuse and/or neglect) and adult trauma exposure on mental health symptoms among women Veterans. A systematic search from database inception to June 2023 generated 18,861 unique articles retrieved and independently screened for eligibility. A total of 21 articles met pre-established inclusion criteria: (a) quantitative data and results within a sample or subsample of U.S. women veterans, (b) published in a peer-reviewed journal, and (c) examining variables of interest simultaneously (i.e., child maltreatment, adult trauma exposure, mental health symptom) in quantitative analyses. Reviewed literature showed a lack of uniformity in measurement and methodologies to evaluate women veterans' lifetime trauma exposure in relation to mental health. Studies most frequently used self-report survey data to evaluate exposure to child maltreatment and/or adult trauma with convenience samples of women veterans (52.4%, n = 11) and examined depressive and/or posttraumatic stress symptomatology. Findings demonstrate the need for additional research attending to the interplay between child maltreatment and adult trauma exposures in relation to women veterans' mental health using comprehensive assessment, longitudinal methods, and understudied as well as more representative samples. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States government. The authors had full access to the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. No financial disclosures were reported by the authors of this paper. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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