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Lifetime history of abuse, suffering, and psychological health
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Medicinsk psykologi. Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet.
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Genus och medicin. Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet. Östergötlands Läns Landsting, Barn- och kvinnocentrum, Kvinnokliniken i Linköping.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-2902-7077
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Yrkes- och miljömedicin. Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-8234-5461
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Medicinsk psykologi. Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet.
2010 (engelsk)Inngår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, ISSN 0803-9488, E-ISSN 1502-4725, Vol. 64, nr 4, s. 227-232Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
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Background: In a representative Swedish sample, we investigated lifetime prevalence of physical, sexual and psychological abuse of women and their current suffering. The relationship between current suffering from abuse and psychological health problems was also studied. Method: The study was cross-sectional and population-based. The Abuse Screening Inventory (ASI), measuring experiences of physical, sexual and psychological abuse and including questions on health and social situation, was sent by mail to 6000 women, randomly selected from the population register. The questionnaire was completed and returned by 4150 (70%) of 5896 eligible women. Results: 27.5% of the women reported abuse of any kind. Of those, 69.5% reported current suffering from abuse. Abused suffering women reported more anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances, and a less advantageous social situation than both non-abused and abused non-suffering women. Also, abused non-suffering women reported more depression than non-abused women. Somatization was reported more often by both abused suffering and non-suffering women than by non-abused women, with no difference between suffering and non-suffering women when adjusted for possible confounders. Conclusion: A majority of abused women, when investigating lifetime history of abuse, report current suffering thereof, which warrants considering abuse an important societal problem. Suffering could be a valuable construct, possibly useful to assess psychological health problems normally not captured by existing diagnostic instruments, although further investigations of the concept are needed.

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2010. Vol. 64, nr 4, s. 227-232
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-14531DOI: 10.3109/08039480903478680PubMedID: 20085432OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-14531DiVA, id: diva2:23658
Tilgjengelig fra: 2007-05-23 Laget: 2007-05-23 Sist oppdatert: 2018-11-15
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1. Abused Women: Health, Somatization, and Posttraumatic Stress
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2007 (engelsk)Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]

The aims of this thesis were to estimate the lifetime prevalence of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse in a random population-based sample of women aged 18-60 years; to estimate current suffering thereof; and to investigate associations between abuse and health problems, more specifically to study abuse related variables associated with somatization and PTSD, respectively.

The studies had a cross-sectional design. Studies I and II comprised 4150 women 18-60 years. Study III included 547 women, and study IV consisted of 213 women, randomly selected from the population-based sample of the first two studies.

The first study found lifetime prevalence rates of 19.4% for physical abuse, 9.2% for sexual abuse, and 18.2% for psychological abuse. Abused women reported more ill-health and a less advantageous social situation than non-abused women. There was an association between magnitude of abuse and health problems. Even a low magnitude of abuse was substantially associated with ill-health. In the second study we found that of the 27.5% of women who had reported any kind of abuse in the first study, 69.5 % reported current suffering thereof. Abused suffering women reported more health problems than abused non-suffering women and non-abused women, and abused non-suffering women reported more health problems than non-abused women. In study three, psychological abuse and sexual abuse without penetration were found to be associated with somatization. Physical abuse and sexual abuse with penetration were not associated with somatization, when adjustments for other kinds of abuse were made. In study four, PTSD and somatization were found to be separately reported phenomena in abused women, although PTSD was positively associated with having somatic symptoms. Women with PTSD reported higher total magnitude of abuse and a higher number of perpetrators than women with somatization. Sexually abused women with PTSD more often described their experience as an act of abuse compared with sexually abused women with somatization.

The present thesis demonstrates that even a low magnitude of abuse is associated with health problems. It also shows that a majority of the abused women, when investigating lifetime history of abuse, reported current suffering thereof, which warrants considering abuse an important societal problem. The relationship between somatization and posttraumatic stress in abused women is discussed in relation to abuse variables. Other factors than severity of abuse, such as whether the abused woman herself perceives her experience as abuse, seem to be more decisive for development of somatization in abused women. The findings suggest that PTSD is not a necessary mediator between abuse and somatization.

sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Institutionen för molekylär och klinisk medicin, 2007
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Linköping University Medical Dissertations, ISSN 0345-0082 ; 1007
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Abuse, Prevalence, Psychological health, Somatization, Posttraumatic stress
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urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8942 (URN)978-91-85831-90-6 (ISBN)
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2007-06-08, Aulan, Hälsans Hus, Campus US, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping, 13:00 (engelsk)
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Veileder
Tilgjengelig fra: 2007-05-23 Laget: 2007-05-23 Sist oppdatert: 2020-03-29

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