Citation

O'Hare T, Shen C, Sherrer MV. Community Ment. Health J. 2017; 53(7): 778-781.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology and Human Services, Lyndon State College, 1001 College Rd., Lyndonville, VT, 05851, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-017-0097-8

PMID

28168433

Abstract

We tested the hypothesis with a sample of community mental health clients (N = 132) that Hispanic clients would report significantly greater post-traumatic stress symptoms than African-American or white clients when controlling for gender, psychiatric symptoms of SMI, and subjective distress from six of the most commonly reported trauma in the SMI literature.

RESULTS supported our main hypothesis: being self-identified as Hispanic was significantly associated with greater post-traumatic stress symptoms. Subjective distress from having been sexually abused along with being "Hispanic" were the only two significant variables left in the equation. Limitations of this study include its modest sample size.

Language: en

Keywords

Post-traumatic stress; Race; Severe mental illness; Trauma