Lifetime Sexual and Physical Victimization among Male Veterans with Combat-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
| Autor: | Keith G. Meador, Kathleen G. Lapp, Hayden B. Bosworth, Marian I. Butterfield, Ron D. Horner, Patrick S. Calhoun, Karen M. Stechuchak, Jennifer L. Strauss, Steven Lipper |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male Child abuse medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Poison control Pilot Projects Comorbidity Risk Assessment Interviews as Topic Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention Prevalence medicine Humans Child Abuse Child Military Medicine Psychiatry Crime Victims health care economics and organizations Veterans Combat Disorders business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Traumatic stress social sciences General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease United States humanities Military Personnel Physical abuse Sexual abuse Cohort business |
| Zdroj: | Military Medicine. 170:787-790 |
| ISSN: | 1930-613X 0026-4075 |
| DOI: | 10.7205/milmed.170.9.787 |
| Popis: | Because of the high prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veteran men and the limited research on victimization in this group, we recruited 133 male veterans with combat-related PTSD from a psychiatric inpatient unit and assessed them for lifetime physical and sexual trauma. Results indicated that 96% of the sample had experienced some form of victimization over their lifetimes; 60% reported childhood physical abuse, 41% childhood sexual abuse, 93% adulthood physical assault, and 20% adulthood sexual assault. In the preceding year alone, 46% experienced either physical or sexual assault. These findings support the need for routine inquiry into the histories of noncombat victimization in this cohort. Determining the lifetime history of trauma exposure may have implications for vulnerability to subsequent development of PTSD and the risk of future violence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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