Childhood Trauma in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Autor: María-José Álvarez, Santiago Escoté-Llobet, Elisabet Tasa-Vinyals, Anabel Gonzalez, Pere Roura-Poch, Quintí Foguet-Boreu, Helga Masramom, Jairo Santiago García-Eslava
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 209:40-48
ISSN: 1539-736X
0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001253
Popis: Current evidence suggests a high prevalence of childhood trauma (CT) among adult patients diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Exposure to CT might lead to clinical differences eventually observed in these patients. We present a cross-sectional study with 54 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder). We obtained sociodemographic data, as well as data on CT, dissociation, suicide history, and intensity of positive and negative psychotic symptoms. More than 75% of the patients reported a history of CT. We observed a link between CT and suicidal behavior. Patients showed high rates of dissociation. Dissociative experiences were related to CT, both in terms of intensity of trauma and number of traumas experienced. All CT forms except emotional neglect showed direct correlations with dissociative experiences. We found no correlation between intensity of CT and intensity of positive psychotic symptoms, yet we observed a moderate inverse correlation with negative psychotic symptoms.
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