Sexual assault and psychosis in two large general population samples

Autor: Kathryn Yates, Ulla Lång, Evyn M. Peters, Johanna T.W. Wigman, Fiona McNicholas, Mary Cannon, Jordan DeVylder, Hans Oh, Ian Kelleher
Přispěvatelé: Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Program (CCNP), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Schizophrenia Research, 241, 78-82. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ISSN: 0920-9964
Popis: Background: Research has shown a strong relationship between psychosis and sexual assault. Theories on developmental trauma as a causal factor for psychosis suggest that exposure to sexual trauma in childhood would have a stronger association with psychosis than sexual trauma in adulthood. We hypothesized that exposure to sexual trauma earlier in childhood and adolescence would be more strongly associated with hallucinations, delusional beliefs and psychotic disorder than sexual trauma that occurred later in life. Methods: Using the 2007 and 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys (N = 14,949) we calculated the prevalence of sexual assault, hallucinations, delusional beliefs, and psychotic disorder. We used logistic regression to examine the relationship between age of exposure to sexual assault (first exposure 16. Our findings do not support the idea that childhood and adolescence are uniquely sensitive periods for the emergence of psychotic experiences or psychotic disorder in relation to sexual trauma.
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