@article{ref1,
title="Childhood physical and sexual abuse in patients with anxiety disorders and in a community sample",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="1996",
author="Stein, Murray B. and Walker, J. R. and Anderson, G. and Hazen, Andrea L. and Ross, C. A. and Eldridge, G. and Forde, David R.",
volume="153",
number="2",
pages="275-277",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated whether histories of childhood physical or sexual abuse were reported more frequently in a clinical sample of patients with anxiety disorders than in a matched community comparison sample. METHOD: A standardized interview with an extensive series of trauma probes was administered to 125 patients with DSM-IV anxiety disorders (panic disorder, social phobia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder) and to 125 age- and gender-matched subjects drawn from a random community sample. RESULTS: Childhood physical abuse was higher among both men (15.5%) and women (33.3%) with anxiety disorders than among comparison subjects (8.1%). Childhood sexual abuse was higher among women with anxiety disorders (45.1%) than among comparison women (15.4%) and was higher among women with panic disorder (60.0%) than among women with other anxiety disorders (30.8%). CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm the association between anxiety disorders and reported childhood physical and sexual abuse and extend earlier findings by pointing to a particular association between sexual abuse and panic disorder in women.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}