Differences in physical and mental health symptoms and mental health utilization
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2009
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Psychosomatics
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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. In this study the authors assessed the associations between abuse, symptoms, and mental health utilization by performing a cross-sectional survey of 380 adult internal-medicine patients. They found that while both IPV and childhood abuse were associated with depressive and physical symptoms, IPV was independently associated with physical symptoms, and childhood abuse was independently associated with depression. Women with a history of childhood abuse had higher odds, whereas women with IPV had lower odds, of receiving care from mental health providers. They concluded that IPV and childhood abuse may have different effects on women s symptoms and mental health utilization.
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Adverse childhood experience, Child development, Effects -- Long term, Effects -- Psychological, Research