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Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Scioli-Salter, ER; Johnides, BD; Mitchell, KS; Smith, BN; Resick, PA; Rasmusson, AM
Published in: Psychol Trauma
September 2016

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relative contributions of depression and dissociation, as well as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to physical health symptoms and to examine the relationships among somatic symptoms, PTSD, depression, and dissociation in relation to childhood and adult trauma exposure. METHOD: Cross-sectional data are from 132 female rape survivors with PTSD assessed before engaging in a study of trauma-focused cognitive therapy for PTSD. Measures included the Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness, Clinician Administered PTSD Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Trauma Symptom Inventory-Dissociation Subscale, Childhood Sexual Abuse Exposure Questionnaire, and Assessing Environments-III-Physical Punishment Scale. RESULTS: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that only dissociative and depression symptoms contributed significantly to physical health symptoms. Similarly, among the subsample of women with either childhood sexual or physical abuse, depression and dissociation were significant predictors of somatic symptoms. However, among women without childhood abuse, only dissociation significantly predicted somatic symptoms. CONCLUSION: Understanding the psychological and biological mechanisms that link childhood versus adult trauma exposure, PTSD, and comorbid depression or dissociation to physical health symptoms may aid development of individualized treatments for the physical and psychological consequences of trauma. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Psychol Trauma

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1942-969X

Publication Date

September 2016

Volume

8

Issue

5

Start / End Page

585 / 591

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Rape
  • Midwestern United States
  • Middle Aged
  • Humans
  • Health Status
  • Female
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Depressive Disorder
 

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Scioli-Salter, E. R., Johnides, B. D., Mitchell, K. S., Smith, B. N., Resick, P. A., & Rasmusson, A. M. (2016). Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychol Trauma, 8(5), 585–591. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000135
Scioli-Salter, Erica R., Benjamin D. Johnides, Karen S. Mitchell, Brian N. Smith, Patricia A. Resick, and Ann M. Rasmusson. “Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.Psychol Trauma 8, no. 5 (September 2016): 585–91. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000135.
Scioli-Salter ER, Johnides BD, Mitchell KS, Smith BN, Resick PA, Rasmusson AM. Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychol Trauma. 2016 Sep;8(5):585–91.
Scioli-Salter, Erica R., et al. “Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.Psychol Trauma, vol. 8, no. 5, Sept. 2016, pp. 585–91. Pubmed, doi:10.1037/tra0000135.
Scioli-Salter ER, Johnides BD, Mitchell KS, Smith BN, Resick PA, Rasmusson AM. Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychol Trauma. 2016 Sep;8(5):585–591.

Published In

Psychol Trauma

DOI

EISSN

1942-969X

Publication Date

September 2016

Volume

8

Issue

5

Start / End Page

585 / 591

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Rape
  • Midwestern United States
  • Middle Aged
  • Humans
  • Health Status
  • Female
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Depressive Disorder