Citation

Margo GM, McLees EM. Compr. Psychiatry 1991; 32(4): 362-366.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY-Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1935027

Abstract

The high prevalence of histories of childhood sexual and physical abuse in inpatient psychiatric populations is documented. In the present study, 38 female inpatients on a psychiatric unit in a teaching hospital were administered an abuse questionnaire and standard measures of psychological distress. Seventy-six percent of the women reported some history of abuse before the age of 16. As predicted, women who reported a childhood history of physical or sexual abuse scored significantly higher on measures of symptomatology and psychopathology as compared with women who did not report an abuse history. Findings confirm the reports of previous researchers, providing further evidence of the generalizability of these observations.

Language: en