TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Sexual abuse in childhood and deliberate self-harm
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - Romans, Sarah E.
A1  - Martin, Jessica L.
A1  - Anderson, J. C.
A1  - Herbison, G. P.
A1  - Mullen, P. E.
SP  - 1336
EP  - 1342
VL  - 152
IS  - 9
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated the association between sexual abuse in childhood and subsequent incidents of deliberate self-harm in women. METHOD: A random community sample of women (N = 252) that reported having been sexually abused as children was interviewed and compared to a similarly sized group (N = 225) that did not report abuse. The subgroup of women sexually abused as children who reported subsequent incidents of deliberate self-harm was then contrasted with abused women who did not report self-harm. RESULTS: There was a clear statistical association between sexual abuse in childhood and self-harm that was most marked in those subjected to more intrusive and more frequent abuse. Self-harm was also associated with major interpersonal problems in the subject's family of origin and with becoming involved in further abusive relationships as an adult. CONCLUSIONS: Sexual abuse in childhood is associated with later incidents of deliberate self-harm and may well be an etiologic factor in its development.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -