PTSD symptom severity in women over time as a function of intimate partner violence, childhood maltreatment, lifetime trauma, and clinical depression

Saturday, March 31, 2012: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Pacific B (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speaker:
Stephanie J. Woods, PhD, RN, The University of Akron

Author:
Rosalie J. Hall, PhD

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Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Describe the impact of childhood abuse and neglect, lifetime violent and non-violent trauma, and intimate partner violence, and depression on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in women
  2. Identify changes in PTSD symptom severity over time as a function of intimate partner violence, depression and childhood maltreatment and lifetime trauma
Description:
A series of latent growth curve models were estimated to determine patterns of change in PTSD symptom severity over two years in women who experienced intimate partner violence. On average, the women showed a curvilinear decrease in PTSD symptoms over the two years, with level of intimate partner violence positively influencing reported PTSD symptoms at each measurement occasion. Clinical depression appeared to increase vulnerability to PTSD symptom severity as did experiences of both childhood and lifetime trauma.