The impact of perceived child abuse history on 160 adult, Native American women's emotional well-being (i.e., depressive mood and anger) and AIDS risk was examined. How sense of mastery and social support might lead to women's greater resiliency was also investigated. Child physical-emotional abuse was found to have greater impact on depressive mood and anger and AIDS risk than did child sexual...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of abuse of elderly people by their carers and the characteristics of abusers and the abused. DESIGN Information on abuse and risk factors was collected over six months from carers and patients. Risk factors were identified in the abused group and compared with those in a non-abused control group. SETTING Carers were interviewed at home; patients were exam...

PURPOSE We sought to evaluate the extent to which childhood physical and/or sexual abuse history is associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during early pregnancy and to explore the extent to which the childhood abuse-PTSD association is mediated through, or modified by, adult experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). METHODS In-person interviews collected information rega...

BACKGROUND Child sexual abuse is considered a modifiable risk factor for mental disorders across the life course. However the long-term consequences of other forms of child maltreatment have not yet been systematically examined. The aim of this study was to summarise the evidence relating to the possible relationship between child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, and subsequent men...

OBJECTIVE Childhood maltreatment is an important psychiatric risk factor. Research has focused primarily on the effects of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or witnessing domestic violence. Parental verbal aggression has received little attention as a specific form of abuse. This study was designed to delineate the impact of parental verbal aggression, witnessing domestic violence, physical abuse, ...

BACKGROUND There is ample evidence that both intimate-partner violence (IPV) and childhood abuse adversely affect the physical and mental health of adult women over the long term. OBJECTIVE The authors assessed the associations between abuse, symptoms, and mental health utilization. METHOD The authors performed a cross-sectional survey of 380 adult female, internal-medicine patients. RESU...

OBJECTIVES To assess in a headache clinic population the relationship of childhood abuse and neglect with migraine characteristics, including type, frequency, disability, allodynia, and age of migraine onset. BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment is highly prevalent and has been associated with recurrent headache. Maltreatment is associated with many of the same risk factors for migraine chronifi...

BACKGROUND Little data describes the role of child abuse pediatricians in consultation for physical abuse patients the pediatric emergency department. OBJECTIVES To compare adherence in the emergency department to hospital physical abuse guidelines and need to return for testing between 2 groups: those receiving a child abuse consultation in the pediatric emergency department vs those who rec...

In many parts of the world, people are becoming increasingly aware of the major problem of sexual and physical abuse. Population estimates of selfreported sexual abuse range from 7% to 22% for childhood abuse and from 13% to 25% for lifetime abuse. An additional 10% of women report serious physical abuse, and an association between sexual and physical abuse has been reported. Women are abused m...

Outcome Measure: Responses to the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire. Results:Several typesof childvictimizationwere reported significantly less often in 2008 than in 2003: physical assaults, sexual assaults, and peer and sibling victimizations, includingphysicalbullying.Therewerealsosignificantdeclines in psychological and emotional abuse by caregivers, exposure to community violence, and th...