@article{ref1,
title="A comparison of the psychological outcomes of self-reported and agency-notified child abuse in a population-based birth cohort at 30-year-follow-up",
journal="Journal of affective disorders",
year="2020",
author="Kisely, Stephen R. and Strathearn, Lane and Mills, Ryan and Najman, Jake Moses",
volume="280",
number="Pt A",
pages="167-172",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Retrospective studies show a strong association between child abuse and subsequent psychiatric morbidity. Prospective studies are less common with conflicting data in young adults. We assessed the effect on psychological outcomes at 30-year follow-up of prospective agency notifications compared to retrospective self-reports of childhood maltreatment in the same birth cohort.   METHODS: We used data on self-reported child abuse from 2425 young adults who completed the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) at the 30-year follow-up of a prospective birth cohort study commenced in 1981. These were linked to notifications of maltreatment to child protection agencies. The outcomes were DSM-IV diagnoses from the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Auto version (CIDI).   RESULTS: A quarter of the sample (n=600) self-reported maltreatment of any type, 326 (13.4%) rating this as severe. The most common maltreatment type was neglect (n=382), followed by emotional (n=225), sexual (n=198) and physical abuse (n=197). On adjusted analyses, there were differences between agency- and self-reported maltreatment in the psychological effects on 30-year-olds. In the case of depression, and especially post-traumatic disorder, there were significant associations irrespective of reporting sources. In the case of anxiety, there was a strong association with all forms of self-reported maltreatment. However, agency-reported cases were only significantly associated with emotional abuse in the previous 30-days.   LIMITATIONS: The attrition rate from baseline to follow-up and the possibility of insufficient power to detect statistical significance in agency-reported cases CONCLUSIONS: The association between child maltreatment and psychiatric symptoms may vary by diagnosis and reporting source. Each source possibly captures different populations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-0327",
doi="10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.017"
}